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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Q3 2023 | 1 | €24.8m |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 1 | €1.31m |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 1 | €2.31m |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
4 cases
28 Sep 2023 Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc.Clear Channel Outdoor: 26.1 million USD – gifts and hospitality for Chinese officials €24.8m
From at least 2012 to 2017, the Chinese majority-owned subsidiary Clear Media bribed officials with expensive gifts and hospitality and used sham intermediaries and false invoices to fund concealed consultants in order to obtain advertising space, for example at bus stops; the payments were booked as entertainment, cleaning and customer development expenses. Despite repeated warnings from internal audit, adequate controls were lacking until 2019; Clear Channel paid 16,355,567 USD in disgorgement, 3,760,920 USD in interest and a civil penalty of 6 million USD (a total of 26,116,487 USD).
Internal audit findings on entertainment and consultancy costs in high-risk markets must lead to immediate controls.
Gifts and hospitality for public officials; correct booking
- Authority / court
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Anti-Bribery, Books and Records, Internal Accounting Controls)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
Original amount 26,116,487 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Sep 2023.
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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11 Feb 2026 Disney DTC, LLC und ABC Enterprises, Inc. (The Walt Disney Company)California: $2.75 million against Disney over incomplete opt-outs for streaming €2.31m
Disney implemented objections to the sale and sharing of data only for individual services or devices rather than across the whole account, continued to disclose data via embedded ad-tech providers and offered no opt-out in connected TV apps. It was the largest CCPA settlement at the time of the agreement with the Attorney General of California.
An opt-out must take effect across all services, devices and integrated third-party providers of an account.
- Authority / court
- Attorney General of California (California Department of Justice)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Cookies and tracking
- Legal basis
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 11 Feb 2026
Original amount 2,750,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 11 Feb 2026.
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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1 Jul 2025 Healthline Media LLCCalifornia: $1.55 million against Healthline over disclosure of illness-related article titles €1.31m
Despite objections, the health portal continued to pass data to advertising partners and transmitted article titles suggestive of diagnoses for targeted advertising; the consent banner did not stop the tracking. In addition, the required contractual clauses with advertising partners were missing. The settlement was reached with the Attorney General of California.
Test consent banners technically: if rejecting does not actually switch off tracking, that is misleading and unlawful.
- Authority / court
- Attorney General of California (California Department of Justice)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Cookies and tracking
- Legal basis
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Unfair Competition Law
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 1 Jul 2025
Original amount 1,550,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 1 Jul 2025.
- Attorney General Bonta Announces Largest CCPA Settlement to Date, Secures $1.55 Million from Healthline.com Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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3 Jan 2025 GGL Projects, Inc. (Sitejabber)Sitejabber: review platform counted reviews before goods were received Order
According to the FTC, the AI-powered review platform collected star ratings for its business customers at the time of purchase, before customers had received the product or service, thereby inflating average ratings and review counts, including in search engine results. The FTC issued a final settlement order prohibiting such misrepresentations.
Ratings submitted before use must not be included in averages as experience-based reviews.
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Fake reviews
- Legal basis
- Section 5 FTC Act
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 3 Jan 2025
- FTC Approves Final Order against Sitejabber Press release of an authority
- FTC Case: Sitejabber (In the Matter of GGL Projects, Inc.) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link