People got fined with the previous regime too, you can read in english about the fines levied by ICO in the UK, for example[0]. GDPR is scarier because the fin

People got fined with the previous regime too, you can read in english about the fines levied by ICO in the UK, for example[0]. GDPR is scarier because the fines look higher and uniform across the EU, as far as I can tell. [0] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/05/ico_finally_delivers_record_400k_fine_to_talktalk_over_breach/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/05/ico_finally_delivers...