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GDPR fines total €56M in first year as Facebook faces 11 investigations — 9To5Mac

By TechTaffy Desk

The stats are in for the first year of GDRP, Europe’s gold-standard data privacy law. GDPR fines totalled €56M, with more than 200,000 investigations, 64,000 of which were upheld, writes Ben Lovejoy.

Here is the link: https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/28/gdpr-fines/

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