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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 6 O 190/21

Sept 2021
final
No monetary fine

Federal State of Bavaria

Sept 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 14 K 19.01274

Sept 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case L 3 R 7/21

Sept 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 2 C 133/21

Sept 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 23 O 10931/20

Sept 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 4 U 324/21

Aug 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 1 U 69/20

Aug 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 1 W 18/21

Jul 2021
final
No monetary fine

Schufa Holding AG

Jul 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case M 32 K 20.2879

Jun 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 10 A 10302/21

Jun 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case VI ZR 576/19

Jun 2021
final
No monetary fine

Transporting Company

Jun 2021
final
No monetary fine

DPA case Facebook/WhatsApp

May 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 1 A 1343/19 SN

Apr 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 9 U 34/21

Mar 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 1 A 1254/20 SN

Mar 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 5 L 623/21.F

Mar 2021
final
No monetary fine

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Mar 2021
final
No monetary fine

VfB Stuttgart 1893 AG

Mar 2021
final
€300K

Private Individual

Mar 2021
final
€0

Court case 17 Sa 37/20

Feb 2021
final
No monetary fine

Deutsche Wohnen SE

Feb 2021
final
No monetary fine

Data protection authority of Saarland (defendant)

Feb 2021
final
No monetary fine

Court case 1 BvR 2853/19

Jan 2021
final
No monetary fine

notebooksbilliger.de

Jan 2021
reduced
€900K

Court case 18 U 2822/19 Pre

Dec 2020
final
No monetary fine

Court case 410d C 197/20

Dec 2020
final
No monetary fine

ABIS GmbH

Nov 2020
final
No monetary fine