Swedish Court Hits Spotify with $6.1 Million Fine for GDPR Breaches
Spotify must pay more than $6 million for processing personal data in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Sweden's Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm said Tuesday.
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The court found Stockholm-based Spotify infringed the GDPR by failing to provide clear and easily available information necessary for data subjects to protect their rights; not giving users information on how long their data would be retained; and not providing sufficient information on what safeguards it used to transfer personal data to third countries or an international organization. The court fined the music-streaming provider $6.1 million (58 million krona).