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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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Who?
by company- Anonymised companies €254.9m 79 % · 4 cases
- Hopper (USA) Inc. und Hopper Inc. €30m 9 % · 1 case
- Grubhub Inc. und Grubhub Holdings Inc. €24.1m 7 % · 1 case
- Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. und Disney Entertainment Operations LLC €8.48m 3 % · 1 case
- Disney DTC, LLC und ABC Enterprises, Inc. (The Walt Disney Company) €2.31m 1 % · 1 case
- Healthline Media LLC €1.31m 0 % · 1 case
- Jam City, Inc. €1.22m 0 % · 1 case
- GGL Projects, Inc. (Sitejabber) – 0 % · 1 case
- StubHub Holdings, Inc. – 0 % · 1 case
When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | €254.4m |
| 2024 | 2 | €24.6m |
| 2025 | 4 | €11m |
| 2026 | 3 | €32.3m |
12 cases
20 Aug 2026 Hopper (USA) Inc. und Hopper Inc.FTC: travel app Hopper pays 35 million USD over hidden and pre-selected fees €30m
Despite promising no hidden fees, the travel app, according to the FTC, charged tips and fees for a VIP support service without consent because they were hidden and pre-selected, and misled users about total prices and the benefits of VIP support and price freezing. The court order against the Canadian Hopper Inc. and its US subsidiary sets 35 million USD, payable in twelve instalments. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
Paid add-ons must never be pre-selected or hidden in the booking flow.
Pre-selected add-ons and fees in booking flows
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Misleading advertising and pricing
- Legal basis
- Section 5 FTC Act; Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees (16 C.F.R. Part 464)
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 2 Jul 2026
Original amount 35,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 20 Aug 2026.
- FTC Cases and Proceedings: FTC v. Hopper (USA), Inc. Enforcement database of an authority
- Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction, Monetary Judgment, and Other Relief (entered), D. Mass. 1:26-cv-13058 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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10 Apr 2026 StubHub Holdings, Inc.FTC: StubHub refunds 10 million USD over ticket prices shown without mandatory fees Disgorgement of profits
According to the FTC, StubHub displayed ticket prices on its website without clearly and conspicuously stating up front the total price including all mandatory fees. The court order relies on the new FTC rule against unfair or deceptive fees and requires StubHub to pay 10 million USD for consumer refunds. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
Since the FTC fees rule, the first price shown for tickets must include all mandatory fees.
Total price display including mandatory fees (drip pricing)
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Misleading advertising and pricing
- Legal basis
- Section 5 FTC Act; Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees (16 C.F.R. Part 464)
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 9 Apr 2026
- FTC Cases and Proceedings: StubHub Holdings, FTC v. Enforcement database of an authority
- Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction, Monetary Judgment, and Other Relief (entered), S.D.N.Y. 1:26-cv-02924 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 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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23 Dec 2025 Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. und Disney Entertainment Operations LLCDisney: 10 million USD over mislabelled children's videos on YouTube €8.48m
On a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the FTC, the federal district court for the Central District of California entered an order against two Disney companies. Disney is alleged to have failed to label child-directed videos on YouTube as 'Made for Kids' because it designated audiences only at channel level; as a result, data from children under 13 could be collected via YouTube without notice to and consent from their parents and used for targeted advertising. Disney pays a civil penalty of 10,000,000 USD and must set up a programme for reviewing and designating the audience of its videos. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
A company distributing content through third-party platforms remains responsible for their privacy settings – channel-level defaults must be checked for each piece of content.
Children's privacy for content on third-party platforms; maintaining platform settings
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Klage durch das U.S. Department of Justice, Anordnung des U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- COPPA Rule, 16 C.F.R. Part 312; Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6502(c), 6505(d); Verfahren nach 15 U.S.C. §§ 45(m)(1)(A), 53(b)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 31 Dec 2025
Original amount 10,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 23 Dec 2025.
- U.S. v. Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. et al., No. 2:25-cv-08223 (C.D. Cal.), Order for Permanent Injunction, Civil Penalty Judgment, and Other Relief (23.12.2025) Court decision
- FTC-Pressemitteilung: Court Approves Order Requiring Disney to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Allegations (31.12.2025) Press release of an authority
- FTC-Pressemitteilung: Disney to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Allegations the Company Enabled the Unlawful Collection of Children's Personal Data (02.09.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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21 Nov 2025 Jam City, Inc.Jam City: 1.4 million USD in California over missing opt-outs in 21 gaming apps €1.22m
On a complaint by the California Attorney General, the Superior Court in Los Angeles entered a stipulated judgment against the mobile game developer Jam City. According to the investigation, none of Jam City's 21 apps offered a way, as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data for personalised advertising, and some games passed on data of teenagers aged between 13 and 16 without their affirmative consent. Jam City pays 1,400,000 USD, must offer opt-out options within the apps, may only sell or share data of under-16s on an opt-in basis and must instruct recipients to delete such data. The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
A business that shares data for advertising through apps must enable the opt-out where the data is collected – directly in the app.
Right to opt out of data sales in apps; protecting minors in advertising tracking
- Authority / court
- Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, auf Klage des Attorney General of California (California Department of Justice)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.100 ff.; Zahlung nach Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.199.90
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 21 Nov 2025
Original amount 1,400,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 21 Nov 2025.
- People v. Jam City, Inc., Case No. 25STCV34029, Superior Court Los Angeles, Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction (21.11.2025) Court decision
- California DOJ, Pressemitteilung: Attorney General Bonta Secures $1.4 Million Settlement with Mobile App Gaming Company (21.11.2025) Press release of an authority
- California DOJ: Privacy Enforcement Actions (Übersicht) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 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
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31 Dec 2024 Grubhub Inc. und Grubhub Holdings Inc.FTC and Illinois: Grubhub pays 25 million USD over hidden delivery fees €24.1m
The FTC and the Illinois Attorney General alleged that the delivery service misled customers about delivery costs and blocked their accounts and balances, promised drivers inflated earnings and listed restaurants without their consent. The court order sets a judgment of 140 million USD, suspended except for a payment of 24.8 million USD to the FTC; in addition, 200,000 USD goes to Illinois (25 million USD in total). The authority allegedly made the findings set out here; this account is not based on a final judgment.
Platforms must show full final prices from the outset and may list partners only with their consent.
Total price disclosure and earnings claims on platforms
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC) und Attorney General of Illinois
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Misleading advertising and pricing
- Legal basis
- Section 5 FTC Act; Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act; Impersonation Rule (16 C.F.R. Part 461); Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act (815 ILCS 505); Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act (815 ILCS 510)
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 17 Dec 2024
Original amount 25,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 31 Dec 2024.
- FTC Cases and Proceedings: Grubhub Inc., FTC and Illinois v. Enforcement database of an authority
- Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction, Monetary Judgment, and Other Relief (entered), N.D. Ill. 1:24-cv-12923 Court decision
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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26 Jun 2024 an Italian animation companyOFAC: USD 538,000 settlement with Italian animation company over payments to a North Korean animation studio €503,321
A Rome-based animation company is paying USD 538,000 under a settlement with OFAC for apparent violations of the North Korea sanctions. According to OFAC's findings, between May 2019 and November 2021 the company remitted around USD 537,939 to a North Korean state-owned animation studio for outsourced animation work. As a result, US financial institutions processed wire transfers in which the Government of North Korea had a blocked interest and exported financial services to North Korea. OFAC treated the apparent violations as non-egregious and not voluntarily self-disclosed; the base penalty was USD 725,000. Summarised in our own words.
- Authority / court
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
- Area of law
- Sanctions and export control · Breaches of sanctions and embargoes
- Legal basis
- North Korea Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. § 510.212; Vergleich nach den Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines, 31 C.F.R. part 501, app. A
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 26 Jun 2024
Original amount 538,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 26 Jun 2024.
- OFAC, Civil Penalties and Enforcement Information (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 26 Jun 2026 · Direct link
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28 Sep 2023 a US outdoor advertising groupUS outdoor advertising group: 26.1 million USD – gifts and hospitality for Chinese officials €24.8m
From at least 2012 to 2017, the group's Chinese majority-owned subsidiary 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; the group 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.
- SEC, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
- SEC, Administrative Proceedings (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 28 Sep 2025 · Direct link
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28 Aug 2023 a US housing listings platformFTC and six states: settlement with housing platform over tens of thousands of purchased reviews €1.48m
According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC, the US consumer protection authority) and six state attorneys general, the housing listings platform flooded the internet with tens of thousands of purchased four- and five-star reviews and charged fees for access to listings that often turned out to be fake. The settlement order filed with the federal court in New York permanently bans the platform from paid or incentivised reviews; the judgment of 36.2 million USD plus 10.9 million USD in civil penalties payable to the states is suspended after a joint payment of 1.6 million USD by the liable parties.
Do not buy reviews; this can lead to permanent bans and monitoring duties for all marketing partners.
Buying reviews and monitoring affiliate partners
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mit den Attorneys General von New York, Kalifornien, Colorado, Florida, Illinois und Massachusetts
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Fake reviews
- Legal basis
- Section 5 FTC Act; Verbraucherschutzgesetze der beteiligten Bundesstaaten
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Mitigating circumstances
- Payment obligation suspended down to 1.6 million USD owing to limited financial capacity.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
- Published
- 28 Aug 2023
Original amount 1,600,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 28 Aug 2023.
- FTC, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
- FTC, Cases and Proceedings (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Enforcement database of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 28 Aug 2025 · Direct link
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14 Mar 2023 a US video game developerVideo game developer: 245 million USD in refunds in FTC settlement over dark patterns €228.2m
According to the FTC, the company's online game triggered unwanted purchases through a confusing button configuration, for example when waking the game from sleep mode or when previewing an item, and the company locked the accounts of customers who disputed charges. Under the final settlement order, the developer is paying 245 million USD for refunds; in addition, there is a separate settlement with a penalty of 275 million USD for COPPA violations (children's data protection).
Purchase buttons must not be placed where users expect something else; disputing charges must not be punished by locking accounts.
Dark patterns in the purchasing process
- Authority / court
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Area of law
- Consumer protection and online retail · Information duties in online retail
- Legal basis
- Section 5 FTC Act (unfair practices)
- Action
- Disgorgement of profits
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 14 Mar 2023
Original amount 245,000,000 USD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 14 Mar 2023.
- FTC, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2023) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 4 · Company name anonymised since 14 Mar 2025 · Direct link