Law note · Latvia
GDPR Articles 82-83 and DVI Enforcement in Latvia
The Data State Inspectorate (DVI) holds the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 57-58 toolkit, investigative powers, corrective powers, and administrative fine authority up to the Article 83 tiers. DVI has issued fines under this authority, including a reported EUR 1.2 million penalty against a service provider. GDPR Article 82 gives any person who suffered material or non-material damage a right to compensation from the controller or processor.
What it asks of an app
- Expect the Data State Inspectorate to have jurisdiction and fining power over your processing of personal data of a person in Latvia, up to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 83 tiers.
- Expect any person who suffered material or non-material damage from an infringement to have a direct right to claim compensation from you as controller or processor, under GDPR Article 82.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: crawls_web, trains_models, deploys_chatbot, high_risk_decisions, processes_biometrics, processes_voice
Primary source: Official Journal text, EUR-Lex, Regulation (EU) 2016/679
DVI enforcement record, reported by TGS Baltic and GDPRhub