Data watchdog to collect nearly €18m in GDPR-related fines

By far the largest fine is to be collected from tech giant Meta, which received a €17m penalty in March of this year. The company was fined an additional €265m earlier this week for a separate data breach. Picture:  Brian Lawless/PA

The country's privacy watchdog is set to collect nearly €18m in GDPR-related fines after a court approved several penalties which had gone unchallenged by the offending parties.

Six such fines were ratified in Dublin’s Circuit Court, a pre-requisite before the Data Protection Commission (DPC) can collect any of the penalties it hands out.