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Germany

Germany Privacy Enforcement

This database records 455 enforcement actions in Germany, including cookie consent and broader data protection cases. Of these, 29 are positive monetary fines, totalling €59.2M. The average across those monetary fines is €2.0M. Counts include non-fine outcomes; amounts exclude non-fine, zero and negative records. Data sourced from GDPRhub and CMS Enforcement Tracker.

Enforcement actions
455
Total monetary fines
€59.2M
Average monetary fine
€2.0M

Enforcement Actions in Germany

Court case 2 AZR 225/20

Aug 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 2 Sa 16/21

Aug 2022
final
No monetary fine

Healy

Aug 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 4 C 1845/21

Aug 2022
final
No monetary fine

DPA case 221 C 578/22

Aug 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 12 W 23/22

Aug 2022
final
No monetary fine

Hamburgische Krebsregister (Hamburg Cancer Registry)

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Hannoversche Volksbank

Jul 2022
final
€900K

Court case 4 K 836/21

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Volkswagen

Jul 2022
final
€1.1M

Court case 11 ZB 22.895

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

The Federal Office of Economics and Export Control

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 5 L1281/22.F

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Pflegeplatzmanager GmbHhttps://gruendelpartner.de/newsroom/gruendelpartner-erwirkt-weitreichende-entscheidung-zur-unzulaessigkeit-von-cloud-und-it-dienstleistungen-durch-us-tochterunternehmen-in-deutschland/

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 8 O 1280/21

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 5 O 1954/21

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 28 O 168/22

Jul 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 1 S 27/22

Jun 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 2 K 98/20

Jun 2022
final
No monetary fine

Leistritz AG

Jun 2022
final
No monetary fine

SCHUFA Holding AG

Jun 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 6 Ta 49/22

Jun 2022
final
No monetary fine

Scalable Capital

May 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 20 U 295/21

May 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case 15 K 194/20

May 2022
final
No monetary fine

Court case M 3 E 22.667

May 2022
final
No monetary fine

Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

Apr 2022
final
No monetary fine

Commissioner for Data Protection and Information Security of the State Thüringen

Apr 2022
final
No monetary fine

Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationssicherheit

Apr 2022
final
No monetary fine

Paul Strobach

Mar 2022
final
No monetary fine