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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 718 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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What for?
by action- Fine €2.41m 100 % · 4 cases
- Order — 0 % · 3 cases
Who?
by companyWhen?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
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| Q1 2025 | 3 | €185,000 |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €720,000 |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 1 | €1.5m |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 1 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
7 cases
22 Jun 2026 Inkasso-Team AGFederal Administrative Court upholds FDPIC: Inkasso-Team was not allowed to publish debtor data Order
The debt collection company posted personal data of alleged debtors on the internet, some of it particularly sensitive, in order to obtain information on their whereabouts and to warn third parties. The Swiss Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, A-3891/2025) upheld the ruling of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (EDÖB) of 28 April 2025, according to which this constitutes an unjustified violation of privacy.
Publicly naming and shaming debtors cannot be justified under data protection law – debt collection must use less intrusive means.
- Authority / court
- Bundesverwaltungsgericht (A-3891/2025) auf Verfügung des EDÖB vom 28.04.2025
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSG Art. 6, Art. 19, Art. 31
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 20 Aug 2026
- Bundesverwaltungsgericht bestätigt Entscheid des EDÖB Press release of an authority
- Urteil des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts A-3891/2025 vom 22. Juni 2026 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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18 Dec 2025 Croatia: 1.5 million EUR against bank whose app recorded all apps installed by customers €1.5m
The mobile banking app of a bank (name not published) scanned the list of all installed applications on the Android and Huawei devices of 433,922 customers and stored it centrally – without a legal basis, without transparent information and without a data-minimising design. The Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka (Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency, AZOP) imposed 1.5 million EUR; the decision is not final (date = publication).
Fraud prevention does not justify capturing device data in full – a blocklist of known malicious apps would have been the less intrusive means.
- Authority / court
- Agencija za zaštitu osobnih podataka (AZOP)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a und c, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 12, 13, 25 Abs. 2 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 18 Dec 2025
- Banci izrečena upravna novčana kazna u iznosu od 1,5 milijuna eura Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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23 Jul 2025 ESTO ASData protection authority requires ESTO AS to stop creating accounts for non-customers Order
The instalment payment provider created customer profiles without a contract for persons who signed in via retailer checkouts, refused former customers the closure of their accounts and continued to send them transactional e-mails with advertising content. The Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate, AKI) ordered transparent information, valid consent, erasure options under Art. 17 GDPR and the separation of transactional and advertising e-mails; a penalty payment of 5,000 EUR is threatened for each item not fulfilled.
Customer accounts must not be created for non-customers ‘on the side’ – and erasure must work once the contract has ended.
- Authority / court
- Andmekaitse Inspektsioon (AKI)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- § 56 Abs. 1, § 58 Abs. 1 IKS; Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. d, Art. 4 Nr. 11, 5, 6, 7, 12–14, 17 DSGVO
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Ettekirjutus-hoiatus nr 2.1-1/24/1048-2575-22 (ESTO AS), 23.07.2025 Decision of an authority
- Andmekaitse Inspektsioon – veröffentlichte Ettekirjutused (Liste) Official register or notice
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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14 Apr 2025 Iberinform Internacional, S.A.AEPD: 720,000 EUR against business information agency Iberinform for purchased data on entrepreneurs €720,000
Since 2008, Iberinform had obtained data on sole traders through a supply contract with Camerdata and used it to enrich its own files for commercial information services. The Spanish data protection authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, AEPD) found no legal basis for this and no information of the data subjects, and imposed 360,000 EUR for each (720,000 EUR in total) as well as an order to bring the processing into compliance; the request for reconsideration (recurso de reposición) was rejected.
Companies that purchase personal data from third parties need their own legal basis and must actively inform the data subjects.
- Authority / court
- Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 14 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- AEPD Resolución PS/00150/2024 (EXP202404645) Decision of an authority
- AEPD Resolución recurso de reposición PS/00150/2024 (Datum der Ausgangsentscheidung 14.04.2025) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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10 Mar 2025 Οργανισμός Χρηματοδοτήσεως Στέγης (Housing Finance Corporation)Cyprus: 10,000 EUR against housing finance corporation for storing data too long €10,000
The housing finance corporation retained data of a former customer in its loan system beyond the permissible retention period because deletion there is only possible manually, record by record. The Επίτροπος Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Commissioner for Personal Data Protection) imposed 10,000 EUR and ordered erasure within 10 days as well as technical and organisational corrections within six months.
Retention periods need technical support – a system without a deletion function turns every expired period into an infringement.
- Authority / court
- Επίτροπος Προστασίας Δεδομένων Προσωπικού Χαρακτήρα (Commissioner for Personal Data Protection)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. d und e, Art. 24 Abs. 1 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Απόφαση – Διατήρηση δεδομένων πέραν της νόμιμης περιόδου (ΟΧΣ, 10.03.2025) Decision of an authority
- 11/08/2025 Αποφάσεις: Ιανουάριος – Απρίλιος 2025 Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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29 Jan 2025 Cembra Money Bank AGFDPIC ruling: Cembra Money Bank answered access requests too late and in generic terms Order
From December 2023 to September 2024, Cembra answered 9 of 13 access requests after the 30-day deadline had expired, and responded to all 13 people only with standard letters instead of the data actually processed about them. The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter, EDÖB) required the bank to provide the data subsequently.
Access requests need a process with resources and deadline monitoring – boilerplate text is no substitute for genuine disclosure of data.
Handling access requests
- Authority / court
- Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter (EDÖB)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSG Art. 25 Abs. 2 lit. b, Art. 25 Abs. 7
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 1 Jul 2025
- Verfügung des EDÖB gegen die Cembra Money Bank AG Press release of an authority
- Verfügung des EDÖB vom 29. Januar 2025 gegen Cembra Money Bank AG Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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6 Jan 2025 Luxembourg credit institution: 175,000 EUR for late responses to data subject requests €175,000
Following 47 complaints, the Commission nationale pour la protection des données (Luxembourg data protection authority, CNPD) found that a Luxembourg credit institution (pseudonymised in the decision as ‘Société A’) had not responded to data subjects’ requests on time; the CNPD did not accept the reference to the COVID-19 pandemic. It issued a reprimand (rappel à l’ordre) and imposed 175,000 EUR.
Data subject requests require deadline tracking and a monitored DPO mailbox – staff shortages are no excuse.
Deadlines for data subject requests
- Authority / court
- Commission nationale pour la protection des données (CNPD) – formation restreinte
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 12 Abs. 3 und 4
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- CNPD – Délibération n° 1FR/2025 du 6 janvier 2025 (Société A) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link