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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 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- Google €890m 51 % · 1 case
- Apple €500m 29 % · 2 cases
- Apple Inc., Apple Distribution International Ltd, Apple Italia S.r.l. €98.6m 6 % · 1 case
- Anonymised companies €59.4m 3 % · 11 cases
- Vodafone GmbH €45m 3 % · 1 case
- Free Mobile SAS und Free SAS €42m 2 % · 1 case
- Telefónica de España, S.A.U. €20m 1 % · 1 case
- Exclusive Networks Corporate SAS €16.1m 1 % · 1 case
- Cloudflare, Inc. €14.2m 1 % · 1 case
- O2 Czech Republic a.s.; SHERLOG Technology, a.s. €11.7m 1 % · 1 case
- 32 more€43.8m
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| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
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| Q3 2026 | 1 | €158,000 |
1 case
3 Jul 2026 Character Technologies, Inc. (Character.AI)Garante: €158,000 fine for Character.AI over transparency and age-verification failings €158,000
The Garante (Italian data protection authority) fined the US operator of the generative AI service Character.AI, on which users – including minors – chat with virtual characters, 158,000 EUR, among other things for deficient privacy information, a data protection impact assessment prepared late and the late appointment of a representative in the EU. It also criticised weaknesses in the protection of minors and in age verification; within 120 days the company must ensure working age verification, an effective cooling-off period preventing blocked minors from re-registering and private-by-default profiles for minors.
Anyone offering generative AI services in the EU needs complete privacy notices, an impact assessment, an EU representative and effective age verification before launch.
Data protection by design and age verification for AI services
- Authority / court
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 2, 12 Abs. 1, 13 Abs. 1 und 2, 14 Abs. 1 und 2, 24 Abs. 1, 25 Abs. 2, 27 Abs. 1 und 35 Abs. 1 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Telecoms, IT and software
- Culpability
- negligent
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Mitigating: progressively strengthened age checks (a dedicated service for minors, age verification by a third-party provider), no previous relevant infringements, cooperation and amendments to the privacy policy during the proceedings.
- Published
- 9 Jul 2026
- Garante, Provvedimento n. 487 del 3 luglio 2026 (Character Technologies, Inc.), doc. web n. 10269571 Decision of an authority
- Garante, Comunicato stampa 9 luglio 2026: Intelligenza artificiale, il Garante privacy sanziona Character.AI Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link