Swedish BNPL provider Klarna fined SKr 7.5m over GDPR failings

The company failed to provide information on user data storage, protection and transfers outside the EU.

The Swedish payments group Klarna has been fined SKr 7.5m ($733,324) for violating the EU’s GDPR by failing to provide adequate information to its users.

A Swedish court ruled this week that Klarna had failed to provide customers with information about how it stored users’ personal data, and that the information

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