Does ICO assist with GDPR breach compensation claims?<\/strong><\/p>\nThough the ICO is not mandated to issue GDPR breach compensation, it can be of help by assessing the organization is question to determine whether it breached the GDPR guidelines or not. The results offered by the ICO can be used as evidence that the GDPR breach occurred in a court of law. Moreover, if you feel as though your personal data was misused by an organization, you can always contact ICO and request them to investigate the organization for a possible GDPR breach. Note that, if the GDPR breach occurred, the ICO will advise you on the next cause of action.<\/p>\n
Do you cater for the GDPR breach claims costs?<\/strong><\/p>\nAs aforementioned, claims for the GDPR breach compensation must be presented before a court of law. But, it is possible that your GDPR breach claim will be less than \u00a310,000. As such, you will be responsible for your own legal fees and costs incurred. Even when the GDPR breach compensation claim succeeds, you cannot claim the incurred cost from the organization in breach. This is because, the claims under \u00a310,000 value are presented before the small claims court where every party is responsible for their legal fees and costs. This is crucial factors that everyone should consider before deciding to file a GDPR breach compensation claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Can anyone claim compensation for data protection breach? Yes. According to Article 82 of the GDPR, a person who suffers non-material or material loss or damages due to an infringement of the GDPR regulation has a right to be compensated by the processor or controller of the information for all damages they suffer. The same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawlorkiernan.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}