In Prison Through YouTube?

With the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation, the topic of data protection gained some presence for a certain period in 2018. This was not least due to the drastically increased penalty ranges for fines, which as is well known can reach up to 20 million euros or 4% of the total global turnover. What seems to have largely escaped public attention in the process, however, is the fact that national legislatures have introduced judicial criminal offenses in addition to this particular form of punishment of the "fine" under data protection law. This is the case in Austria and Germany, for example. In Austria, the following provision was introduced for this purpose in Section 63 of the Data Protection Act:

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