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The average ICO fine reached £1.6 million in 2025, up roughly 370% from about £675,000 in 2023, according to Bridewell's analysis of the ICO's own Enforcement Register. See every confirmed UK GDPR penalty since 2023, including the £14 million Capita fine, ranked and sourced.
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The Information Commissioner's Office took just 31 enforcement actions in 2025, down 50% from 62 in 2024, according to URM Consulting's analysis of the ICO's own Enforcement Register. See how those 31 actions split between fines, reprimands and enforcement notices, and why complaint volumes are rising even as enforcement activity falls.
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The EUR 1.2 billion fine against Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, issued in May 2023, remains the single largest GDPR fine ever recorded as of 2026. See how the record has changed hands only twice since 2018, and why Ireland's own regulator did not want to fine Meta at all.
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The EUR 1.2 billion fine against Meta Platforms Ireland remains the largest GDPR fine on record as of 2026, according to the CMS Enforcement Tracker Report and enforcementtracker.com. See the ranked top 10, the full top-50 range, and how the biggest fines are holding up on appeal.
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Cumulative GDPR fines have reached roughly EUR 7.1 billion since May 2018, per DLA Piper's January 2026 survey. See the yearly trend, the biggest individual fines, and the average penalty by country.
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An overview of India's Personal Data Protection Bill 2019: key terminology, who it applies to, data principal rights, and what your privacy policy needs to cover.
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