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Meta and its Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp subsidiaries have paid roughly EUR 2.83 billion in finalized GDPR fines across seven Irish Data Protection Commission decisions since September 2021. See the full running total, the largest single fine, and what is still pending as of 2026.
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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada closed 39 well-founded PIPEDA complaints in fiscal 2024-25, yet issued $0 in direct fines because PIPEDA grants it no penalty power. See the complaint volume, investigation outcomes, and what Bill C-36 would change.
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A coaching or consulting refund policy has to answer a question a product return never asks: how much of a person's time have you already spent? Here is how to write that answer.
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The average GDPR fine leveled off around EUR 2.28 million in 2026, per CMS's GDPR Enforcement Tracker Report covering 2,685 documented cases through March 2026. See why that average is misleading and what most companies actually pay.
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Subscription refund policies have to answer questions a one-time-purchase template never covers: what happens to unused days on a mid-cycle cancellation, how to handle a trial that converted without the buyer meaning it to, and whether a partial period is ever refundable.
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The EUR 1.2 billion fine against Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, issued in May 2023, remains the single largest GDPR fine ever recorded as of 2026. See how the record has changed hands only twice since 2018, and why Ireland's own regulator did not want to fine Meta at all.
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