Compliance Radar
Who was sanctioned, and for what?
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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Where?
by countryWhat for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- AliExpress €550m 42 % · 2 cases
- Delivery Hero SE, Glovoapp23 SA €329m 25 % · 1 case
- Temu €200m 15 % · 1 case
- Infinite Styles Services Co. Limited (Shein) €150m 12 % · 1 case
- Jeronimo Martins Polska (Biedronka) €24.7m 2 % · 1 case
- Groupe Parfait €7.6m 1 % · 1 case
- Zalando SE €7.34m 1 % · 1 case
- Sennheiser electronic SE & Co. KG, Sonova Consumer Hearing Sales Germany GmbH €6m 0 % · 1 case
- ELECTROLUX (Unternehmen der schwedischen Electrolux-Gruppe; Rechtsform in der Mitteilung nicht genannt) €4.96m 0 % · 1 case
- Deghi S.p.A. €2m 0 % · 1 case
- 28 more€16.3m
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €50,000 |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
1 case
27 May 2025 AS Watson (Health & Beauty Continental Europe) B.V.AP reduces cookie fine against Kruidvat operator AS Watson to 50,000 EUR after objection €50,000
The company behind the Kruidvat drugstore chain tracked visitors to Kruidvat.nl with tracking cookies without their knowledge or consent, enabling it to build profiles from location, pages visited, shopping basket and purchases. The Dutch data protection authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) had imposed 600,000 EUR in 2024, upheld the objection in May 2025 and reduced the fine to 50,000 EUR.
Set tracking cookies in an online shop only after genuine consent – pre-ticked or hidden consent is not sufficient.
- Authority / court
- Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Cookies and tracking
- Legal basis
- Art. 6 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO (Tracking-Cookies ohne Einwilligung)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Retail and e-commerce
- Published
- 12 Jun 2025
- Besluit op bezwaar AS Watson – Kruidvat (27 mei 2025) Decision of an authority
- Besluit boete AS Watson – Kruidvat Decision of an authority
- AP – Boete van 600.000 euro voor tracking cookies op Kruidvat.nl Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link