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Violation Tracker Summary for Mega-Scandal
Mega-Scandal: Online Privacy
Description: This list shows cases in which tech companies paid penalties of $25 million or more in cases related to privacy abuses.
Penalty Total since 2000: $7,319,000,000
Number of Penalty Records: 15
Note: The totals here are adjusted to account for the fact that each current parent's entries may include both agency records and settlement announcements for the same case; or else a penalty covering multiple locations may be listed in the individual records for each of the facilities. They are also adjusted to reflect cases in which federal and state or local agencies cooperated and issued separate announcements of the outcome. Duplicate or overlapping penalty amounts are marked with an asterisk in the individual records list below.
| Top 10 Current Parent Companies | Total Penalty $ | Number of Records |
| Meta Platforms Inc. | $5,777,500,000 | 4 |
| Alphabet Inc. | $669,500,000 | 5 |
| Epic Games Inc. | $520,000,000 | 1 |
| X Corp. | $150,000,000 | 1 |
| ByteDance | $92,000,000 | 1 |
| Zoom Video Communications | $85,000,000 | 1 |
| Amazon.com | $25,000,000 | 2 |
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the current parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
| Company | Current Parent | Current Parent Industry | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  |
| Facebook, Inc. | Meta Platforms Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2019 | FTC | $5,000,000,000 |
| Facebook | Meta Platforms Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2021 | private lawsuit-federal | $650,000,000 |
| Epic Games, Inc. | Epic Games Inc. | entertainment | privacy violation | 2022 | FTC | $520,000,000 |
| Google, LLC | Alphabet Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2022 | MULTI-AG | $391,500,000 |
| Twitter Inc. | X Corp. | information technology | privacy violation | 2022 | DOJ_CIVIL | $150,000,000 |
| Google, LLC | Alphabet Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2022 | private lawsuit-state | $100,000,000 |
| Google LLC | Alphabet Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2023 | CA-AG | $93,000,000 |
| Tiktok, Inc. | ByteDance | information technology | privacy violation | 2022 | private lawsuit-federal | $92,000,000 |
| Facebook | Meta Platforms Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2022 | private lawsuit-federal | $90,000,000 |
| Zoom Video Communications Inc. | Zoom Video Communications | miscellaneous services | privacy violation | 2022 | private lawsuit-federal | $85,000,000 |
| Google LLC | Alphabet Inc. | information technology | consumer protection violation | 2022 | AZ-AG | $85,000,000 |
| Meta Platforms Inc. | Meta Platforms Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2024 | private lawsuit-federal | $37,500,000 |
| Google LLC and YouTube LLC | Alphabet Inc. | information technology | privacy violation | 2019 | NY-AG | (*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $34,000,000 |
| Amazon.com | Amazon.com | retailing | privacy violation | 2023 | FTC | $25,000,000 |
| Amazon.com Inc. | Amazon.com | retailing | privacy violation | 2023 | DOJ_CIVIL | (*)Penalty amounts marked by an asterisk are ones announced by more than one agency. Parent penalty totals are adjusted to avoid double-counting. $25,000,000 |
