Allegations: For tracking and storage of the mobile-device user-location data of nearly 250 million US users.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $62M

Reason: For the training of its LLM models on content from publishers and news agencies, without notifying them.

Country: France 🇫🇷

Fine 💸: €250M

Allegations: For overcharging consumers through unlawful restrictions on the distribution of apps on Android devices and unnecessary fees for in-app transactions.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $700M

For running illegal app store monopolies (vs. Epic).

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Allegations: For secretly tracking the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $5B

Allegations: For policies restraining speech and whistleblowing.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $27M

Allegations: For not allowing third-party app markers to charge users for purchases without a commission for Google.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $40M

Allegations: For tracking people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called ’location history'.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $93M

Allegations: For deceptive advertisements to promote the Pixel 4 smartphone.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $8M

Allegations: For having miscalculated overtime pay rates.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $8.4M

Allegations: For tracking people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called ’location history'.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $392M

Reason: For refusing to allow third-party payments.

Country: India 🇮🇳

Fine 💸: $113M

Reason: For leveraging its dominant position in markets such as online search and app store for Android.

Country: India 🇮🇳

Fine 💸: $162M

Allegations: For automatically identifing faces in photos and videos uploaded to Photos.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $100M

Reason: For not clearly informing users and obtaining their prior consent when collecting and analysing behavioural information to use them for customised advertisements.

Country: South Korea 🇰🇷

Fine 💸: $50M

Reason: For anticompetitive conduct in the digital advertising market.

Country: European Union 🇪🇺 / United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Fine 💸: Potentially €25B

Reason: For the illegal collection and use of personal location data.

Country: Australia 🇦🇺

Fine 💸: $60M

Reason: For frustrating their legal right to erasion of their information (i.e., right to be forgotten).

Country: Spain 🇪🇸

Fine 💸: €10M

Allegations: Retaliation against 6 employees for their labor activism.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $??M

Allegations: For pregnancy discrimination.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $??M

Reason: For making it difficult for internet users to refuse cookies.

Country: France 🇫🇷

Fine 💸: €150M

The use of Google Analytics violates GDPR.

Country: Austria 🇦🇹

Country: Ireland 🇮🇪

Settlement 💸: €218M

Reason: for abusing its ‘dominant’ position in online advertising.

Country: France 🇫🇷

Fine 💸: €220M

Allegations: For pay and hiring discrimination at California, Washington State locations.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $3.8M

Reason: For violating the data access right.

Country: Hungary 🇭🇺

Fine 💸: €29

Reason: For not respecting the right to be forgotten of a Belgian citizen, and for lack of transparency in its request form to delist.

Country: Belgium 🇧🇪

Fine 💸: €600K

Reason: For not complying with GDPR on its search engine.

Country: Sweden 🇸🇪

Fine 💸: €7M

Country: Australia 🇦🇺

Settlement 💸: $481M

Allegations: For alleged violations of Children’s Privacy Law.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $170M

Country: France 🇫🇷

Settlement 💸: €1B

Allegations: For age discriminations.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $11M

Allegations: For collecting people’s private information through its Street View project. .

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $13M

Reason: For lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding the ads personalization.

Country: France 🇫🇷

Fine 💸: €50M

Reason: For using using its mobile operating system to illegally cement its dominant position in search.

Country: European Union 🇪🇺

Fine 💸: €4.34B

Reason: For favouring its own shopping service, taking a tough line in the first of three probes of its dominance in searches and smartphone operating systems.

Country: European Union 🇪🇺

Fine 💸: €2.42B

Country: Italy 🇮🇹

Settlement 💸: €306M

Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Settlement 💸: £130M

Reason: For not labeling clearly enough the Google StreetView cars.

Country: Italy 🇮🇹

Fine 💸: €1M

Allegations: For bypassing Safari privacy settings.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $17M

Reason: For illegally recording information from unsecured Wi-Fi networks.

Country: Germany 🇩🇪

Fine 💸: $145K

Allegations: For snooping on personal data via Wi-Fi during its Street View mapping project.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $7M

Reason: For scanning Mian Mian’s works for addition to its online library without her permission.

Country: China 🇨🇳

Fine 💸: $800

Allegations: For bypassing Safari privacy settings.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $22.5M

Allegations: For infringing on a Linux patent owned by defunct company Bedrock Computer Technologies.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $5M

Allegations: Google Buzz violated several communication privacy laws related to protecting user privacy.

Country: United States 🇺🇸

Settlement 💸: $8.5M

Apologised to Chinese writers for having scanned books under Chinese copyright for its Google Books digital library project.

Country: China 🇨🇳

Reason: For having digitized, without permission, books (from the book editor: La Martinière) for its Google Books digital library project.

Country: France 🇫🇷

Fine 💸: €300K