Five years after the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into effect, the European Data Protection Board released new guidelines to provide clarity and consistency in calculating fines across all EU member states. Bird & Bird Partner James Moss and Associate Dan Fara, CIPP/E, CIPM, review the EDPB’s five-step approach for calculating fines and also look at the U.K.’s approach, noting a “significant disparity between the EU and U.K. positions in respect to applicable guidance on the calculation of financial penalties.”Â
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