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€1.77B in GDPR fines across 10 companies — and 9 out of 10 were preventable. We break down the largest GDPR penalties of 2024–2025 and show how data anonymization would have stopped most of them.

The EU AI Act's most critical enforcement date is less than six months away. On August 2, 2026, the requirements for high-risk AI systems under Annex III become fully enforceable. Penalties for non-compliance can reach up to 35 million euros or 7% of global annual revenue. Yet most enterprises are not ready. According to Gartner, organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects by 2026 due to a lack of AI-ready data. The gap between AI ambition and data readiness has never been