Get Permission Privacy regulators in Europe have imposed fines totaling more than $330 million since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, according to the law firm DLA Piper. Over the last 12 months, European data protection authorities imposed fines totaling 158.5 million euros ($192 million) under GDPR, which makes for a total of 272.5 million euros ($331 million) in fines levied since the law went into full effect on May 25, 2018, according to DLA Piper's latest GDPR and data breach report. Not all of those GDPR violations involved data breaches. But the number of data breach notifications that organizations made to regulators hit 121,165 for the past 12 months - led by Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. - which was a 19% increase from the 101,403 breach notifications issued in the prior 12-month period, the report says.