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by donthavekeepass 2879 days ago
These links are misleading as neither of those fines was imposed based on GDPR: The first article says that the fine was imposed based on a national law due to a data breach in 2017 (and says that the fine could’ve been higher now under GDPR), the fine in the second article was handed out based ePrivacy / Cookie legislation. Neither of those are directly related to GDPR, although the first case would also be punishable under it (but wasn’t when it happened).

I would’ve been surprised if the authorities had handed out fines that fast, as they usually need to give companies a reasonable amount of time to fix problems after they are revealed.