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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.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€792,639Total of monetary amounts
€792,639Largest single case: Verkkokauppa.com Oyj
€792,639Median per case with an amount

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12 Jun 2026 Verkkokauppa.com OyjKHO confirms fine against Verkkokauppa.com over customer accounts without time limit FinlandData subject rights and transparency €792,639

The online retailer had not set a retention period for customer accounts and kept data until customers requested deletion; purchases were only possible with an account. The sanctions board of the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman imposed 856,000 EUR in 2024, the administrative court reduced the fine to 792,639 EUR on the basis of current turnover, and the Supreme Administrative Court (Korkein hallinto-oikeus, KHO) confirmed this on 12 June 2026.

What organisations can take from it

Do not leave deletion to the customer – every online shop needs defined retention periods for accounts and order data.

Authority / court
Korkein hallinto-oikeus (KHO); Sanktionsgremium des Datenschutzbeauftragten
Area of law
Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
Legal basis
Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. e DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
reduced
Sector
Retail and e-commerce
Published
18 Jun 2026

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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