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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.

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

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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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