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Global privacy regulators handed out over $18 billion in fines over last decade

By Mike Swift, Matthew Newman and James Panichi ( June 11, 2025, 21:17 GMT | Comment) -- The cost of data privacy violations for the largest companies that trade in personal data continues to escalate, with the world's privacy regulators handing out more than $18 billion in monetary privacy sanctions over the past decade. The growing cost of privacy enforcement is being driven by the maturation of privacy regimes like the GDPR, US enforcers entering an active enforcement phase, and Pacific Rim enforcers handing out record fines for their jurisdictions while toughening their privacy laws. A database of more than 60 large penalties is attached below.From Seoul to Canberra to Austin, Texas, data privacy violations are becoming significantly more expensive for big companies that trade in personal data....

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