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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 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 €5.71m 100 % · 3 cases
Who?
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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 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €200,000 |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 1 | €1,000 |
| Q3 2026 | 1 | €5.51m |
3 cases
3 Sep 2026 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. – Niederlassung Italien (BBVA Italia)Garante: 5.5 million EUR against BBVA Italia over advertising despite objection €5.51m
For seven months (October 2025 to May 2026), the bank continued to send a customer advertising via its app, although he had objected several times. The Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) also found deficient systems for implementing objections and inaccurate information about the processing, and imposed 5,508,000 EUR (Provvedimento No. 613).
An objection to advertising must take effect immediately and reliably across all channels – including app messages.
- Authority / court
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 12, 21, 24 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Published
- 11 Sep 2026
- Newsletter del 11 settembre 2026 – Garante privacy Press release of an authority
- Provvedimento n. 613 del 3 settembre 2026 (BBVA Italia) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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4 May 2026 Malta: insurer reprimanded again and fined – marketing calls despite objection €1,000
Although the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) had already ruled in favour of a complainant, an insurance company (name redacted) again had him called for marketing purposes via a third-party company; his number remained on call lists. The IDPC criticised the lack of safeguards and inadequate contracts with processors, ordered remedial action within 20 days and imposed two fines totalling 1,000 EUR.
An objection to marketing must also reach all call centres engaged – otherwise the next complaint follows.
Passing marketing objections on to service providers (suppression lists)
- Authority / court
- Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 2, Art. 21 Abs. 2, Art. 24 Abs. 1, Art. 28 Abs. 3 i. V. m. Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. b, d, i DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Repeat case
- yes
- IDPC Commissioner's Decision (4. Mai 2026) Decision of an authority
- Data Protection Decisions – IDPC Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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5 Jun 2025 CaixaBank, S.A.AEPD: 200,000 EUR against CaixaBank over continued storage of a non-customer's data €200,000
A person who was not (or no longer) a customer received a letter from CaixaBank about an update to its privacy statement, announcing that she would be contacted about her advertising preferences. The Spanish data protection authority (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, AEPD) considered the continued storage of her data to be an infringement of the principle of storage limitation and imposed 200,000 EUR; the bank's request for reconsideration was dismissed as inadmissible.
Before mass mailings, check whether the recipients' data may still be stored at all – former customers should be deleted, not written to.
- Authority / court
- Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. e DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- AEPD Resolución PS/00140/2024 (EXP202302270) Decision of an authority
- AEPD Resolución recurso de reposición PS/00140/2024 (Datum der Ausgangsentscheidung 05.06.2025) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link