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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 718 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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by authority- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse €157,176 97 % · 1 case
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse; Cour des marchés €5,000 3 % · 1 case
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per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 1 | €157,176 |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 1 | €5,000 |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
2 cases
27 Nov 2025 Infobel SAInfobel: data broker sold consumer data for direct marketing without legal basis €5,000
The address broker (formerly Kapitol) had passed on the complainant’s data via a media agency to an advertiser for direct marketing without being able to demonstrate valid consent. The Autorité de protection des données (Belgian Data Protection Authority, APD) imposed 40,000 EUR and ordered erasure and information of the recipients; on 3 June 2026 the Cour des marchés (Brussels Market Court) set aside these parts and itself set the fine at 5,000 EUR.
Data brokers must be able to prove for every record on which legal basis it was collected and resold.
- Authority / court
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse; Cour des marchés
- Area of law
- Data protection · Marketing and consent
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 24
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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16 Jan 2024 Black Tiger Belgium (vormals Bisnode Belgium)Black Tiger Belgium: fine for non-transparent data trading, reduced by 10% in court €157,176
The data broker processed data obtained from third-party sources (including the companies register) on a large scale and over a long period without proactively informing the data subjects; access requests were answered incompletely and the record of processing activities had gaps. The Autorité de protection des données (Belgian Data Protection Authority, APD) imposed three fines totalling 174,640 EUR and prohibited, among other things, the ‘Data Quality’ service until data subjects had been informed; on 4 September 2024 the Brussels Market Court set aside the orders and reduced the fines by 10% to a total of 157,176 EUR.
Anyone collecting data indirectly must actively inform data subjects – legitimate interest does not hold where laws prohibit further use.
- Authority / court
- Autorité de protection des données (APD/GBA) – Chambre Contentieuse
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- DSGVO – Rechtmäßigkeit, Fairness und Transparenz, Auskunftsrecht, Verzeichnis von Verarbeitungstätigkeiten
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- reduced
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Mitigating circumstances
- Discontinuation of the ‘Data Delivery’ service and destruction of the CMX consumer database.
- Published
- 16 Jan 2024
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link