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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 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.

2cases from 1 jurisdiction
€1.87mTotal of monetary amounts
€1.85mLargest single case: Elkjøp Nordic AS, Elkjøp Norge AS
€936,286Median per case with an amount

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2 cases

12 Aug 2026 Lab Pharma ASLab Pharma AS: NOK 205,000 for threatening Datatilsynet staff NorwayData subject rights and transparency €18,745

Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined the online dietary supplement retailer Lab Pharma AS NOK 205,000 for breaching its duty to cooperate with the supervisory authority (Art. 31 GDPR): the company had threatened case handlers with police reports and lawsuits in order to end the investigation of a complaint, and submitted requested documents late. The authority also ordered the company to delete the name and images of a former advertising partner (an influencer) from all its websites and to stop using her data for marketing until it can demonstrate a legal basis, as the underlying contract had already expired in March 2017.

What organisations can take from it

Anyone who considers a supervisory order unlawful must use the available appeal routes – threats against case handlers and missed deadlines become a sanctionable breach in their own right.

Relevance to training and awareness

Dealing with supervisory authorities and the duty to cooperate

Authority / court
Datatilsynet
Area of law
Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
Legal basis
Art. 31, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. f, g und i, Art. 83 DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Retail and e-commerce
Culpability
intentional
Liability of senior managers
Datatilsynet attributed the intentional conduct of the company's management to the company.
Published
17 Aug 2026

Original amount 205,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Aug 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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1 Jun 2026 Elkjøp Nordic AS, Elkjøp Norge ASElkjøp: NOK 20m fine over invalid consent in customer club NorwayMarketing and consent €1.85m

Datatilsynet (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) fined Elkjøp Nordic AS and Elkjøp Norge AS NOK 20,000,000. Following an on-site inspection in June 2022, the authority found that consent for the customer club was neither informed nor specific nor freely given, that club data had been reused without a legal basis for the 'kundematch' (customer match) tool, that the lawfulness of so-called offline conversions had not been assessed and documented, and that rectification requests had not been handled within the deadlines. The decision was adopted under the cooperation mechanism with the supervisory authorities of Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Denmark; more than six million club members across the Nordic countries were affected.

What organisations can take from it

Anyone who ties discounts to club membership must obtain separate, informed and freely given consent in advance for each marketing purpose and must not reuse club data for new purposes such as audience matching without assessment.

Relevance to training and awareness

Valid consent in customer clubs and loyalty programmes

Authority / court
Datatilsynet
Area of law
Data protection · Marketing and consent
Legal basis
Art. 6 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 4 Nr. 11, Art. 6 Abs. 4, Art. 5 Abs. 2 i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 12 Abs. 3 DSGVO; Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. i DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Retail and e-commerce
Culpability
intentional
Mitigating circumstances
Improvements made after the inspection, Datatilsynet's long case-handling time and the lack of evidence that sensitive data were processed; the amount is well below the starting point in the EDPB guidelines (0.4–0.8% of group turnover).
Published
4 Jun 2026

Original amount 20,000,000 NOK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Jun 2026.

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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