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The upside is probably very limited. A private psychotherapy provider in Finland doesn’t have millions in their bank account.

They’re effectively bankrupted by this news already, as business grinds to a halt. By the time a class action suit awards something to the victims, the company will be long gone.

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Class action is very limited in Finland - the law that allows this is quite recent, there has been no class action suits yet at all and I'm not sure if it would be even applicable here.

The situation is much the same in Sweden, however the GDPR has an article that specifically allows class actions. It remains to see how it would work out in practice.

In an interview of a lawyer, they said that this article has not been implemented in the Finnish legislation (or at least not properly for a health care case like this - I didn't fully catch it).

The GDPR fines alone might end up bankrupting them (and rightfully so IMO). The only upside, if any, is that this might serve as a warning to anyone claiming that one doesn't have anything to worry bout if one doesn't have anything to hide.

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