1,509 enforcement actions from 16 federal and state jurisdictions. Every event traced back to its official government source.
1,509
Total Actions
16
Jurisdictions
$26.6B+
Total Fines Tracked
New Jersey is co-leading a multistate investigation into TikTok to determine if the platform violates consumer protection laws by using techniques that increase engagement among young users, potentially causing mental and physical harm. The investigation will examine what TikTok knows about these harms to children, teenagers, and young adults.
New Jersey is co-leading a nationwide investigation into whether Instagram and its parent company Meta Platforms, Inc. are violating state consumer protection laws by employing techniques that induce children, teenagers, and young adults to use the platform in potentially harmful ways. The bipartisan coalition of attorneys general is examining the potential mental and physical health harms resulting from extended engagement, including depression, anxiety, and body image issues.
A caseworker with the New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency was charged with criminal offenses for allegedly accessing and disclosing confidential DCF database records without authorization. The charges include Computer Theft and Unlawful Access and Disclosure. The investigation was conducted by the New Jersey State Police.
The FTC removed Aristotle International, Inc. from its list of approved COPPA Safe Harbor programs due to insufficient monitoring of member companies' compliance with COPPA guidelines. This action prevents operators from using Aristotle's program for favorable regulatory treatment and marks the first such removal since COPPA's inception.
The FTC finalized a settlement with Miniclip, S.A. for falsely claiming it was a member of the CARU COPPA safe harbor program. Miniclip is prohibited from misrepresenting its participation in privacy programs and subject to compliance and recordkeeping requirements.
Unixiz, Inc. agreed to shut down its i-Dressup teen social website and pay $98,618 in civil penalties to settle allegations that it violated COPPA by collecting personal information from over 2,500 New Jersey children without parental consent and failed to safeguard user data, leading to a 2016 data breach affecting more than 24,000 New Jersey residents.
$99K
The New Jersey Attorney General settled with Dokogeo, the developer of the Dokobots app, for violating COPPA by collecting personal information from children without parental consent. The settlement requires Dokogeo to disclose its data practices, stop collecting children's data, delete existing children's data, and pay a suspended $25,000 penalty.
$25K
All data sourced from official government enforcement pages.