A new report from Finbold highlights that fines under the EU GDPR reached a record level in Q3 2021, totalling €984.47 million. The figure is an increase of almost 20 times over the combined Q1 & Q2 period, €50.26 million and three times greater than the whole of 2020, €306.3 million.
Within the period were the two significant fines to Amazon by the Luxembourg DPA €746 million, followed by WhatsApp €225 million by the Irish DPC. The report also breaks include several charts breaking down the period.
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