Penalties issued to digital companies for EU GDPR violations 2022
GDPR was enforced in 2018 and is a component of EU privacy law.
As of 2022, e-commerce and digital giant Amazon was the online service with the highest penalty due to violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), receiving a fine of 746 million euros. Additionally, Meta-owned Instagram was fined 405 million euros, after the publication of children's email addresses and phone numbers. The