( October 28, 2025, 11:11 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: ZZ Dats, a Latvian IT company, has received a €300,000 fine for a violation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The company had allowed the exposure of municipal data, the national data watchdog said in a statement on Tuesday. The authority said that ZZ Dats, which stores data from nearly all Latvian towns, had been under investigation after a data breach in 2024 and had failed to ensure data security. The company has appealed the fine at the Riga City Court.Statement follows (in Latvian). ...
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