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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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Where?
by authority- Consumer Affairs Agency (消費者庁, CAA) – 0 % · 1 case
- Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC, 個人情報保護委員会) – 0 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Anonymised companies – 0 % · 1 case
- Snow Corporation; SNOW Japan Co., Ltd. (SNOW Japan株式会社) – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 | – |
| 2025 | 0 | – |
| 2026 | 1 | – |
2 cases
6 Aug 2026 Snow Corporation; SNOW Japan Co., Ltd. (SNOW Japan株式会社)Snow Corporation and SNOW Japan: orders over undisclosed paid posts on X Order
SNOW Japan, to which South Korea's Snow Corporation had left decisions on advertising content in Japan for the jointly offered service, had users of X publish posts about the AI image functions of the 'SNOW' app from April 2025 onwards, for payment and following its instructions, without making the commission recognisable; the posts were treated as advertising by both companies. On 6 August 2026 each of them received an order to stop the display of posts still online, inform consumers and take measures to prevent recurrence.
A foreign provider that leaves its advertising in Japan to a partner remains responsible for undisclosed paid posts.
Stealth marketing and disclosure of paid posts
- 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. 7 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 5 Nr. 3 (Bekanntmachung zu Stealth-Marketing) 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
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 6 Aug 2026
- 「SNOW」と称するアプリケーションの利用サービスの提供事業者2社に対する景品表示法に基づく措置命令について (Eintrag, 06.08.2026) Press release of an authority
- News Release 06.08.2026 mit Maßnahmenanordnungen 消表対第681号 und 第682号 (PDF) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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28 Mar 2024 a Japanese internet groupInternet group: formal recommendation after data leak via a contractor’s infected PC Reprimand or warning
After the work PC of an employee at the company’s South Korean security contractor was infected with malware, unauthorised parties accessed its systems from 14 September to 27 October 2023; data of around 520,000 people (users of its messaging service, business partners, employees) were leaked or put at risk. The authority issued a formal recommendation under Art. 148(1) APPI for inadequate organisational security measures (Art. 23 APPI) and required reports until March 2025; in addition, it gave guidance (shidō) under Art. 147 over the possible exposure of user identifiers (GUID) on the group's auction platform.
Contractors’ access to your systems is part of your own security responsibility; an infected machine at a contractor must not become the way in.
Malware and contractors’ access rights
- 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. 148 Abs. 1 i. V. m. Art. 23; Art. 147
- Action
- Reprimand or warning
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 28 Mar 2024
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 28 Mar 2026 · Direct link