The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has not been afraid to issue some heavy General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) fines to the likes of Google, British Airways and Marriott for their assorted data leaks and breaches in recent years. Issuing a GDPR fine is just the first step, however; at some point it needs to be collected, or the process is meaningless.
That second part is apparently where ICO is running into some serious difficulty, with 74% of the GDPR fines issued by the agency since the start of 2020 remaining unpaid. TheSMSWorks has collected numbers that indicate the problem is tilted more to smaller companies than larger ones, with SMS and phone spammers frequently dragging out the appeals process for years or simply outright refusing to pay.
UK ICO struggles to collect GDPR fines as enforcement process can stretch on for years
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