Compliance Radar
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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by action- Fine €35.5m 100 % · 3 cases
- Order — 0 % · 1 case
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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 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 1 | €30.5m |
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| Q4 2024 | 1 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €5m |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
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| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
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| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
4 cases
10 Apr 2025 Luka Inc.Garante: 5 million EUR against Replika operator Luka over lack of legal basis €5m
The US operator of the Replika chatbot had not determined a legal basis for the processing, had an inadequate privacy notice and, despite declaring that minors were excluded, had no age verification. Italy's data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) imposed 5 million EUR and opened further proceedings concerning the training of the underlying language model.
A declared exclusion of minors is worthless without effective age verification at registration and during use.
- Authority / court
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Area of law
- AI and digital regulation · AI systems
- Legal basis
- DSGVO (Rechtmäßigkeit, Transparenz, Schutz Minderjähriger)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Published
- 19 May 2025
- AI: Il Garante sanziona la società che gestisce il chatbot “Replika” Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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30 Jan 2025 Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.; Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.Garante blocks DeepSeek: immediate limitation of processing for Italian users Order
After the Chinese providers had declared that they did not operate in Italy and were not subject to the GDPR, Italy's data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) ordered, as a matter of urgency and with immediate effect, the limitation of the processing of Italian users' data and opened an investigation.
Companies that offer AI services to European users are subject to the GDPR – regardless of where they are headquartered.
- Authority / court
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Area of law
- AI and digital regulation · AI systems
- Legal basis
- DSGVO, Art. 58 Abs. 2 lit. f (Beschränkung der Verarbeitung)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Published
- 30 Jan 2025
- Intelligenza artificiale: il Garante privacy blocca DeepSeek Press release of an authority
- Garante, Provvedimento del 30 gennaio 2025 [10098477] (DeepSeek) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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2 Nov 2024 OpenAIGarante: 15 million EUR against OpenAI over ChatGPT – later annulled by the court overturned
Italy's data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) imposed 15 million EUR because OpenAI trained ChatGPT with user data without an appropriate legal basis, breached transparency obligations, failed to report a data breach from March 2023 and did not provide for age verification; in addition, a six-month information campaign was ordered. The Rome Court (Tribunale di Roma) upheld OpenAI's action in judgment no. 4153/2026 (published on 18 March 2026); the Garante subsequently removed the decision from its website.
Companies that train AI models with personal data need a documented legal basis and age verification in advance.
- Authority / court
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Area of law
- AI and digital regulation · AI systems
- Legal basis
- DSGVO (Rechtsgrundlage, Transparenz, Meldung von Datenpannen, Schutz Minderjähriger)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- overturned
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Published
- 20 Dec 2024
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- ChatGPT, il Garante privacy chiude l’istruttoria Press release of an authority
- OpenAI, annullata la sanzione del Garante privacy Additional reference (not official)
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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16 May 2024 Clearview AI Inc.Dutch AP: 30.5 million EUR against Clearview AI over facial database €30.5m
Clearview processes biometric data of people in the Netherlands without a legal basis for a facial recognition database compiled from the internet, did not inform data subjects, did not respond to access requests and did not designate an EU representative. In addition to a fine of 30.5 million EUR, the Dutch data protection authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) imposed four orders subject to penalty payments.
Publicly accessible photos are no licence for biometric analysis – users of such services risk fines of their own.
- Authority / court
- Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
- Area of law
- AI and digital regulation · AI systems
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, 6 Abs. 1, 9 Abs. 1, 12, 14, 15, 27
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Published
- 3 Sep 2024
- Dutch Supervisory Authority imposes a fine on Clearview because of illegal data collection for facial recognition Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link