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Poland's data protection authority, UODO, imposed over PLN 64 million (roughly EUR 15 million) in GDPR fines in 2025, its record year, according to CMS's GDPR Enforcement Tracker Report 2026. See how Poland's surge compares to Hungary, the Czech Republic, and the rest of Eastern Europe.
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Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, issued 835 GDPR enforcement decisions in 2024, more than triple 2023's total, according to CMS's GDPR Enforcement Tracker Report (2026 edition, March 2026 cutoff). See the year-by-year trend, the EUR 15 million OpenAI fine, and why Italy's average penalty is a fraction of the EU average.
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The Netherlands' four largest confirmed GDPR fines total EUR 423.2 million since 2024, led by Uber's record EUR 290 million penalty, according to PrivacyTerms.io's compilation of Dutch DPA (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) decisions and the CMS GDPR Enforcement Tracker Report 2026. See how the total breaks down by case, year, and violation.
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Spain's data protection authority, the AEPD, has issued 1,048 published GDPR fines, the highest count of any European regulator for the seventh consecutive year, according to the CMS GDPR Enforcement Tracker Report 2025/2026. See why Spain fines so often, how small most of its penalties are, and its single largest case.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission issued just 10 final GDPR decisions in 2025, yet those decisions carried EUR 530.77 million in fines, pushing its cumulative total since 2018 past EUR 4.04 billion, according to the DPC's own 2025 Annual Report published June 30, 2026. See the decision count trend, the largest individual fines, and how little of that money Ireland has actually collected.
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Germany's biggest confirmed GDPR fine is EUR 45 million, imposed on Vodafone GmbH by the federal data protection authority in 2025. See the totals, the biggest cases, and why German courts keep cutting these fines to a fraction of their original size.
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