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by graphene 2538 days ago
From the article:

    Where does the money go?

    The penalty is divided up between the other European
    data authorities, while the money that comes to the
    ICO goes directly to the Treasury.
So it seems most of it will go to other European data authorities.
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Ah thanks, I missed that. It usually all goes to HM Treasury but this is a joint operation between multiple EU supervisory authorities.

"ICO has been investigating this case as lead supervisory authority on behalf of other EU Member State data protection authorities. It has also liaised with other regulators. Under the GDPR ‘one stop shop’ provisions the data protection authorities in the EU whose residents have been affected will also have the chance to comment on the ICO’s findings."

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-bl...