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So, do other European companies keep a better grip on data or are their ICO's too lazy to issue fines?

I daresay some will presume the former The Breach Level Index annual report for 2016 showed 161 known incidents in the UK, but only 8 in Germany and 4 in France, so the data suggests that those people might be right.

For me, a common sense alarm bell rings loudly when the fourth largest economy in the world claims to have had only eight data breaches.