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The FTC's all-time record COPPA penalty has grown 275x since 2006, from Xanga's $1 million settlement to Epic Games' $275 million penalty in December 2022. See every record-breaking fine ranked by size and how much each one beat the last.
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Epic Games paid a record $275 million COPPA penalty in December 2022, the largest civil penalty the FTC has ever obtained for violating one of its own rules. See every major COPPA fine and settlement ranked by size, plus how enforcement has grown since 2018.
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California's maximum penalty for an intentional CCPA violation reached $7,988 in 2026, per the California Privacy Protection Agency's December 2024 inflation adjustment. See how that figure compares to GDPR, five state privacy laws, and HIPAA's own penalty caps.
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Non-EU firms pay EUR 490 to EUR 4,992 a year for a GDPR Article 27 representative, per provider pricing checked in July 2026, while the Netherlands' data protection authority fined Locatefamily.com EUR 525,000 in 2021 for having none at all.
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Hiring one privacy-focused employee costs SMEs a median of $123,000 a year, according to the IAPP Salary and Jobs Report 2025-26. See where the rest of a small business compliance budget goes: audits, CCPA setup costs, and legal counsel, benchmarked against A-LIGN, ISACA, and Cisco 2026 data.
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49% of small business owners who avoid hiring a lawyer say it is simply because they cannot afford one, per Rocket Lawyer's 2025 SMB Legal Concerns Survey. See what free templates, paid document generators, and attorneys actually cost, and how courts treat each.
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