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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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per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
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| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
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| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 1 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €6,200 |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
2 cases
6 Aug 2025 DSB: fine against news portal that ignored instruction on cookie banner €6,200
In 2023, the Austrian data protection authority (Datenschutzbehörde, DSB) had ordered a local news portal (a media GmbH & Co KG, name pseudonymised) by decision to offer, on the first layer of the cookie banner, an equivalent option to close it without consent. Because the company did not implement this from October 2024 until at least March 2025, the DSB imposed 6,200 EUR for failure to comply with an instruction; the penalty decision is final.
Implement orders of the supervisory authority on time – ignoring them risks a separate fine in addition to the original infringement.
- Authority / court
- Datenschutzbehörde (DSB)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Cookies and tracking
- Legal basis
- Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. d i. V. m. Art. 83 Abs. 6 DSGVO; Art. 7 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- DSB Straferkenntnis GZ 2025-0.276.820 vom 06.08.2025 (RIS) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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18 Nov 2024 Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.BGH: loss of control after Facebook scraping is compensable damage (VI ZR 10/24) Other
In April 2021, data on around 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries was made public, which unknown persons had previously linked to telephone numbers and harvested via the contact import function. Germany's Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) ruled that the mere loss of control over data already constitutes non-material damage under Art. 82 GDPR, considered around 100 EUR appropriate and referred the case back to the Higher Regional Court of Cologne (OLG Köln), among other things to examine the default searchability setting in the light of data minimisation.
Data breaches trigger compensation claims even without proven misuse – with millions of data subjects, this adds up to a mass risk.
- Authority / court
- Bundesgerichtshof (VI. Zivilsenat)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Art. 82 Abs. 1 DSGVO
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 18 Nov 2024
- BGH Pressemitteilung Nr. 218/2024 – Leitentscheidung zum Scraping Court press release
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link