On November 23, the Belgian Data Protection Authority ("DPA") published a status report on GDPR implementation (source documents in French and in Dutch). According to the report, there have been 317 data breach notifications (versus 13 in 2017), 3,599 information requests (versus 2,145 in 2017), 148 complaints/requests (versus 76 in 2017), 137 opinion requests (versus 44 in 2017), and 3,540 notifications of data protection officers. The report also mentions that the first dawn raids took place, although no file has yet been transmitted to the dispute body.

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