{"id":5949,"date":"2021-05-25T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:06:38","slug":"the-largest-fines-since-the-establishment-of-the-gdpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/the-largest-fines-since-the-establishment-of-the-gdpr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Largest Fines Since The Establishment Of The GDPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced three years ago to address the way companies operating within the EU use, process, and store consumers&#8217; personal data, the agency has imposed fines on companies and organizations across Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the biggest fines recorded, Google led the list with a \u00a350 million fine after a French regulator ruled that the company had failed to disclose its data processing declaration to its users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H&amp;M followed with a fine of \u00a335.3 million after being fined by German regulators in 2020 for secretly monitoring hundreds of its employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British Airways made the list with a \u00a320 million fine in 2019 after users of its websites were directed to a fraudulent site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marriott International Hotels was also on the list with a \u00a318.4 million fine after a 2014 hack was revealed in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57011639\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the establishment of the GDPR, several major companies have been fined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}