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>>grabeh+(OP)
This is no hysteria. Depending on where your company is located the sueing risk is really high. E.g. in countries like Germany there is a whole industry which lives from sueing companies and people and I can imagine that GDPR will open a whole new sueing market there. In other countries like Austria you get first warned and then sued on big GDPR violations which is a much better solution.

So it all depends.

>>therea+a6
As per the article, GDPR does not enable you to sue the company.

> What the GDPR allows private individuals to do is to contact their regulators and to complain if you decide to ignore their requests.

The individual will not receive a payout from a GDPR violation.