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Germany

Germany Privacy Enforcement

This database records 206 enforcement actions in Germany, including cookie consent and broader data protection cases. Of these, 14 are positive monetary fines, totalling €2.1M. The average across those monetary fines is €150K. Counts include non-fine outcomes; amounts exclude non-fine, zero and negative records. Data sourced from GDPRhub and CMS Enforcement Tracker.

Enforcement actions
206
Total monetary fines
€2.1M
Average monetary fine
€150K

Enforcement Actions in Germany

Financial advisory firm (controller)

Mar 2024
final
No monetary fine

Court case 2 Ca 4416/23

Feb 2024
final
No monetary fine

Callcenter

Feb 2024
final
No monetary fine

Court case 1 K 187/21

Feb 2024
final
No monetary fine

Court case VI ZR 15/23

Feb 2024
final
No monetary fine

Dansk Retursystem

Feb 2024
final
No monetary fine

Twitter

Jan 2024
final
No monetary fine

CEE Projekte Verwaltung GmbH

Jan 2024
final
No monetary fine

Company

Jan 2024
final
€496K

CRIF Bürgel

Dec 2023
final
No monetary fine

Facebook

Dec 2023
final
No monetary fine

Schufa

Dec 2023
final
No monetary fine

UF (data subject and claimant before national court)

Dec 2023
final
No monetary fine

Postbeamtenkrankenkasse (PBeaKK, German Postal Civil Servants’ Health Insurance Fund)

Nov 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 4 U 347/21

Nov 2023
final
No monetary fine

Ex-employee (data subject)

Nov 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 5 Ca 877/23

Nov 2023
final
No monetary fine

CJEU case C‑307/22 FT (Copies of medical records)

Oct 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 7 K 2578/22

Oct 2023
final
No monetary fine

S-Bahn Berlin

Oct 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case IV ZR 177/22

Sept 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 4 ZB 23.1056

Sept 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 3 S 13/23

Aug 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 51 C 206/23

Aug 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 15 U 184/22

Aug 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 9 Sa 73/21

Jul 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 3 Sa 33/22

Jul 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 322 C 3109/23 (2)

Jul 2023
final
No monetary fine

Court case 10 U 1633/22

Jul 2023
final
No monetary fine

Bundespolizei

Jun 2023
final
No monetary fine