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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 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 authority- Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁, CAA) €7.63m 100 % · 1 case
- Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC, 個人情報保護委員会) – 0 % · 1 case
What for?
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Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €7.63m 100 % · 2 cases
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | – |
| 2024 | 1 | €7.63m |
| 2025 | 0 | – |
| 2026 | 0 | – |
2 cases
12 Mar 2024 a Japanese car importerJapanese car importer: surcharge over false standard-equipment claims €7.63m
In 2020 and 2021, the importer listed features as standard in printed and online data sheets and catalogues for three model variants from two model ranges and for an equipment package which were missing or – like certain driver-assistance functions – only worked with a separately ordered navigation package. Two surcharge orders issued on the same day (599,120,000 JPY for the models of one range, 631,850,000 JPY for the models of the other range) total 1,230,970,000 JPY.
Equipment details in catalogues and data sheets are advertising claims and must be checked against the actual standard equipment before publication; a timely self-report can halve the amount.
Accurate product information in catalogues and data sheets
- Authority / court
- Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁, CAA)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Misleading advertising and pricing
- Legal basis
- Art. 8 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 5 Nr. 1, Art. 9 Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations (不当景品類及び不当表示防止法, Gesetz Nr. 134/1962)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Automotive
- Culpability
- negligent
- Mitigating circumstances
- For the equipment package on a model of the second range, the amount was halved under Art. 9 because the company had reported the facts itself; a report concerning a model of the first range was not recognised as such a report.
- Published
- 12 Mar 2024
Original amount 1,230,970,000 JPY, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Mar 2024.
- Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁, CAA), Veröffentlichung der Behörde (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 12 Mar 2026 · Direct link
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12 Jul 2023 a Japanese carmakerCarmaker: data protection authority guidance after vehicle data was exposed for ten years Reprimand or warning
Because of a misconfigured cloud environment at an affiliated contractor within the group, servers for two of the carmaker's connected-vehicle services were accessible from outside for around ten years; data of about 2.3 million people were affected, including in-vehicle device IDs, vehicle identification numbers and location data. The carmaker had not recognised these data as personal data, as the staff responsible had not been adequately trained, and had not checked the contractor’s access controls. The authority gave the company guidance (shidō) under Art. 147 APPI to improve training, access control and supervision of the contractor and to implement its own remedial measures.
Vehicle identification numbers and locations are personal data too: anyone configuring cloud storage must know this, and contractors’ access settings must be checked.
Secure cloud configuration and recognising personal data
Missing or inadequate training played a role in the decision.
- Authority / court
- Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC, 個人情報保護委員会)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI, 個人情報の保護に関する法律) Art. 147 i. V. m. Art. 23 und Art. 25
- Action
- Reprimand or warning
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Automotive
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 12 Jul 2023
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 12 Jul 2025 · Direct link