Essential data protection trends for Irish businesses in 2026. How GDPR, AI, and new EU laws affect compliance and leadership ...

Europe has levied €1.2 billion in GDPR fines during 2025 as data privacy enforcement remains a key priority for authorities.

GDPR enforcement across Europe remained consistently high throughout 2025, with regulators issuing fines totalling approximately €1.2 billion, in line with the previous year, according to the annual ...

Consent asymmetry and “opt-out hurdles” are drawing fines. The compliance gap is technical, not legal language.

In the final quarter of 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued fines under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

TikTok has been fined €530 million (approximately $600 million) in Europe under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Irish authorities determined that the company sent and stored data ...

The French data protection authority announced Wednesday it fined the national employment agency €5 million (nearly €6 ...

The Council, represented by the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU, and the European Parliament secured a provisional deal on a new law which will improve cooperation between national data ...