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Another GDPR fine slashed: Italian regulator Garante fined Fastweb about 4.5 million euro at the beginning of April. But the company has used Garante's 50% discount scheme, meaning it's waived its right to appeal, but paid half the original amount.
By my count, that means every million-euro-plus fine levied by Garante has been halved. It's effective in many ways, given none of the companies involved have appealed - saving the regulator time and money.
But it also means a lot of the headline figures we see are not quite right: as I wrote back in March, about €80 million in fines levied by European data protection authorities have been dropped. https://globaldatareview.com/data-privacy/european-data-enforcers-cant-make-their-fines-stick
Slightly ballsed-up this thread. Damn. This is worse than when Gwyneth Paltrow ate bread.
