The Dutch regulator predicates its massive GDPR fine for Uber on the fact that the sudden driver suspensions left some platform users without income, a decision that it says should not be left up to an automated system alone.
Credit rating agency Experian's Netherlands branch has been assessed a €2.7 million (about $3.2 million) GDPR fine for improper collection of personal data, which was drawn from multiple public and private sources that data subjects were not necessarily aware of.
Popular "fast fashion" app Shein has landed in some regulatory trouble in the EU, as France's data regulator CNIL has issued a €150 million GDPR fine due to failure to obtain cookie consent.
Google is facing a €325 million fine from French data regulator CNIL for its placement of cookies that may not have been noticed by those signing up for new accounts and its use of ads in Gmail.
Italy was one of the first EU nations to take OpenAI and ChatGPT to task over data privacy violations, even banning the app from the country briefly, and it has now issued the bloc's first GDPR fine of this nature to the company.
A 2018 Facebook privacy breach incident that first drew complaints just after the GDPR went into force has finally resulted in the issuance of a penalty. The €251 million GDPR fine stems from a flaw in the platform's "View All" feature.
Business and employment networking giant LinkedIn is being hit with a big GDPR fine for failure to obtain sufficiently informed consent for ad tracking, and for not having a valid basis for its processing of first party personal data for this purpose.
A 2019 incident in which user passwords were inadvertently stored in plaintext has netted a €91 million GDPR fine for Meta from Ireland's DPC, though access to the password storage was limited to Meta workers on an internal company network.
Despite formally pulling out of the EU market, Clearview AI continues to face legal difficulties as its facial recognition database has drawn a €30.5 million ($33.7 million) GDPR fine from the Dutch data protection agency.
Amazon was penalized for excessive employee monitoring, insufficient data minimization, and failing to meet transparency and security requirements. Much of the GDPR fine centers on the hand scanners that are issued to warehouse employees.
