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.
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Where?
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What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Google LLC €1.19bn 39 % · 1 case
- Google €890m 29 % · 1 case
- Apple €500m 17 % · 2 cases
- Cadence Design Systems Inc. €120.1m 4 % · 1 case
- Comunicaciones Celulares S.A. (TIGO Guatemala) €102.1m 3 % · 1 case
- Vodafone GmbH €45m 1 % · 1 case
- Free Mobile SAS und Free SAS €42m 1 % · 1 case
- Clearview AI Inc. €30.5m 1 % · 1 case
- Swisscom (Schweiz) AG €19.4m 1 % · 1 case
- Exclusive Networks Corporate SAS €16.1m 1 % · 1 case
- 37 more€68.4m
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 1 | €45m |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
1 case
3 Jun 2025 Vodafone GmbHBfDI: 45 million EUR against Vodafone over fraud in partner agencies and authentication gaps €45m
Malicious employees in partner agencies that broker contracts for Vodafone had created fictitious contracts and contract changes to the detriment of customers. The German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) imposed 15 million EUR for inadequate vetting and monitoring of the partner agencies (Art. 28) and 30 million EUR for authentication deficiencies in ‘MeinVodafone’ in combination with the hotline, through which unauthorised persons were able, among other things, to retrieve eSIM profiles; in addition, a reprimand was issued under Art. 32.
Companies that outsource sales to partner agencies must audit how those agencies handle customer data and make misuse technically harder.
Insider threats and oversight of sales partners
- Authority / court
- Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data processors
- Legal basis
- Art. 28 Abs. 1 S. 1, Art. 32 Abs. 1 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Mitigating circumstances
- Full cooperation including self-incrimination, modernisation of systems, separation from fraudulent partners; fines accepted and paid, plus donations amounting to millions.
- Published
- 3 Jun 2025
- Pressemitteilung 6/2025: BfDI verhängt Geldbußen gegen Vodafone Press release of an authority
- BfDI – Übersicht Pressemitteilungen (Datum 03.06.2025) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link