# Cookie Fines

> Open-source database tracking 5,813 GDPR and ePrivacy cookie consent enforcement actions across 33 European countries.

## Docs

- [Cookie Enforcement Database](https://cookiefines.eu/cookie-enforcement): Browse 553 cookie consent fines, warnings, and orders from European DPAs. Filter by country, violation type, and amount.
- [All GDPR Enforcement Actions](https://cookiefines.eu/gdpr-enforcement): Complete database of 5,813 GDPR enforcement actions including fines, court rulings, and CJEU decisions.
- [Statistics & Trends](https://cookiefines.eu/statistics): Interactive charts and data visualizations of GDPR fine trends, country comparisons, and violation distributions.
- [Cookie Precedents](https://cookiefines.eu/cookie-precedents): Key court rulings and precedent-setting decisions that define cookie banner requirements across Europe.
- [GDPR Precedents](https://cookiefines.eu/gdpr-precedents): Landmark GDPR enforcement decisions and CJEU rulings shaping data protection law.
- [Risk Calculator](https://cookiefines.eu/risk-calculator): Multi-step tool to estimate your organisation's GDPR cookie fine risk based on company size, violations, and jurisdiction.
- [About & Methodology](https://cookiefines.eu/about): Data sources (GDPRhub, CMS Enforcement Tracker), collection methodology, update frequency, and quality measures.
- [Contact](https://cookiefines.eu/contact): Questions, enforcement-data corrections, privacy requests, press inquiries, and technical issues.
- [GDPR Fines by Country](https://cookiefines.eu/countries): Compare DPA enforcement activity across 33 European countries with per-country statistics.
- [Companies](https://cookiefines.eu/companies): Browse enforcement actions by company name. Includes Meta, Google, Amazon, Vodafone, and thousands more.
- [Violation Types](https://cookiefines.eu/violations): 10 classified cookie violation categories with enforcement statistics per type.
- [GDPR Articles](https://cookiefines.eu/gdpr): Browse enforcement actions by cited GDPR article, from Art. 5 to Art. 83.

## Blog

Expert articles on GDPR compliance, cookie consent enforcement, and data protection trends. Updated regularly.

- [Blog](https://cookiefines.eu/blog): All published articles on GDPR compliance, cookie enforcement, and privacy.
- [Blog RSS Feed](https://cookiefines.eu/blog/feed.xml): RSS feed of blog articles.
- [GDPR compliance checklist: A step‑by‑step guide](https://cookiefines.eu/blog/gdpr-compliance-checklist): Topics: GDPR compliance checklist
- [Data Privacy Compliance: A Practical EU Case Guide](https://cookiefines.eu/blog/data-privacy-compliance): Topics: data privacy compliance
- [How to Conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment in 2026](https://cookiefines.eu/blog/privacy-impact-assessment): Topics: privacy impact assessment
- [Top 5 GDPR Compliance Software Solutions for 2026](https://cookiefines.eu/blog/gdpr-compliance-software): Topics: GDPR compliance software

## Optional

- [RSS Feed](https://cookiefines.eu/feed.xml): Latest 50 enforcement actions. Supports filters: ?scope=cookie_consent, ?country=FR, ?authority=CNIL.
- [Full LLM Context](https://cookiefines.eu/llms-full.txt): Comprehensive machine-readable reference with full schema, all entity IDs, hub URLs, and sample data.
- [Disclaimer](https://cookiefines.eu/disclaimer): Legal disclaimer and data accuracy notice.
- [Privacy Policy](https://cookiefines.eu/privacy): Privacy policy for cookiefines.eu visitors.

## Key Facts

- Founded in 2024
- Tracks 5,813 enforcement actions across 33 European countries
- 553 cookie consent enforcement actions — the largest structured dataset of cookie-specific enforcement
- Largest fine tracked: €1.2B (Meta Ireland)
- Data sources: GDPRhub (noyb.eu), CMS GDPR Enforcement Tracker, direct DPA publications
- Updated daily via automated scraper pipeline with AI-assisted normalization
- Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Citation: Cookie Fines (cookiefines.eu). GDPR & ePrivacy Cookie Enforcement Dataset.

## Contact

- Website: https://cookiefines.eu
- Contact & data inquiries: https://cookiefines.eu/contact