Cookiefines

Cookiefines.eu is the largest open-source database dedicated exclusively to European cookie and privacy enforcement actions. It tracks over 5,400 fines, warnings, and sanctions issued by data protection authorities across 33 countries, covering enforcement under GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and national privacy legislation. Each enforcement record includes the issuing authority, country, date, fine amount, legal basis, violated articles, and a summary of the decision. Records are individually sourced and linked to official regulatory publications where available. The entire dataset is maintained under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, making it freely accessible for non-commercial use, research, and journalism. Unlike general GDPR enforcement trackers that cover all types of data protection violations, Cookiefines.eu focuses specifically on cookie and ePrivacy-related enforcement — the category of violations that directly impacts every website operator in Europe. This narrow focus enables deeper coverage and more granular categorization than broad-scope alternatives. The database serves multiple professional use cases. Compliance teams use it to benchmark enforcement trends by country and authority, calibrating their risk assessments against real regulatory activity. Legal professionals research precedents for specific types of cookie violations. Researchers and journalists analyze enforcement patterns across jurisdictions and over time. Cookie consent vendors reference the data to educate their customers about compliance risks with concrete, verifiable examples. Cookiefines.eu is structured for both human browsing and discoverability. Individual enforcement pages are optimized with structured data markup, making records findable through standard web search. The site supports navigation by country, authority, legal article, and fine amount, allowing users to quickly find the enforcement actions most relevant to their situation.