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.

2cases from 1 jurisdiction
€325.8mTotal of monetary amounts
€325mLargest single case: Google LLC und Google Ireland Limited
€162.9mMedian per case with an amount

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Where?

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  1. Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), formation restreinte €325m 100 % · 1 case
  2. Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) €750,000 0 % · 1 case

What for?

by area of law

All areas of law

  1. Data protection €325.8m 100 % · 2 cases

Who?

by company
  1. Google LLC und Google Ireland Limited €325m 100 % · 1 case
  2. Les Publications Condé Nast €750,000 0 % · 1 case

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2 cases

20 Nov 2025 Les Publications Condé NastCNIL: 750,000 EUR against Vanity Fair publisher Condé Nast over cookies without consent FranceCookies and tracking €750,000

On vanityfair.fr, cookies requiring consent were set before any interaction with the banner, trackers were labelled as ‘strictly necessary’ and cookies continued to be placed even after ‘Reject all’. Following a complaint by noyb, the publisher had already received a formal notice in 2021; follow-up inspections in 2023 and 2025 by the French data protection authority (CNIL) showed continuing infringements.

What organisations can take from it

A cookie banner must technically deliver what it promises: after ‘Reject’, no further trackers may be set – and this should be tested regularly.

Authority / court
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
Area of law
Data protection · Cookies and tracking
Legal basis
Art. 82 Loi Informatique et Libertés
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Media and online platforms
Repeat case
yes
Published
27 Nov 2025

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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1 Sep 2025 Google LLC und Google Ireland LimitedGoogle: 325 million EUR – advertising cookies at account creation and ads in the Gmail inbox FranceCookies and tracking €325m

When creating a Google account, users were not sufficiently informed that advertising cookies were necessarily placed in the process; in addition, Google displayed advertisements between e-mails in Gmail without prior consent. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (French data protection authority, CNIL) imposed 200 million EUR on Google LLC and 125 million EUR on Google Ireland and ordered remedial action within six months, subject to a penalty payment of 100,000 EUR per day.

What organisations can take from it

Do not tacitly tie advertising cookies to account creation – and advertising in the inbox counts as direct marketing requiring consent.

Authority / court
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), formation restreinte
Area of law
Data protection · Cookies and tracking
Legal basis
Art. 82 Loi Informatique et Libertés; Art. L. 34-5 Code des postes et des communications électroniques
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Media and online platforms
Employees
10,000 or more

Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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