[phh]

To whoever did this: thanks!

Such a website can have many uses:

  - Show the average people why privacy is important with concrete examples
  - Find previous rulings for people in a specific situation
  - Stop(reduce.) the "there is no way we're going to be sued for that" by the company's managers

My wish for that website is that in the future, the data is more easily readable and "big-data exploitable" (good luck with that)

Little things I can tell on the top of my head:

  - the height of the fines is basically random, that makes scrolling cognitively heavy imo. Having (...) to click to expand long descriptions sounds fair I think
  - it's not possible to link to a row (useful for giving examples to people)
  - long descriptions deserve multiple paragraphs, they are hard to read as-is.

Also, I think negative rulings would be useful as well, though could send a different political message, so that's author's choice.

[hobofan]

> Stop(reduce.) the "there is no way we're going to be sued for that" by the company's managers

I was thinking the opposite. The fines listed are so low, that from a purely financial perspective complying doesn't seem to make much sense. I would estimate all GDPR compliance efforts I've been involved in to be more costly than the largest fine issued in Germany.

[Semaphor]

I think the spirit is that first offenses that aren't extremely outrageous get lower fines.

[stordoff]

The idea, generally speaking, is escalating fines. If a fine of this level doesn't stop you, you will get a substantially larger fine for the next or on-going infringement.