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Violation Tracker Current Parent Company Summary
Current Parent Company Name: Alphabet Inc.
Ownership Structure: publicly traded (ticker symbol Nasdaq: GOOG)
Headquartered in: California
Major Industry: information technology
Specific Industry: internet services
Penalty total since 2000: $876,634,618
Number of records: 21
| Top 5 Offense Groups (Groups Defined) | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| healthcare-related offenses | $500,000,000 | 1 |
| consumer-protection-related offenses | $243,450,000 | 8 |
| employment-related offenses | $132,503,959 | 9 |
| miscellaneous offenses | $640,659 | 2 |
| environment-related offenses | $40,000 | 1 |
| Top 5 Primary Offense Types | Penalty Total | Number of Records |
| off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products | $500,000,000 | 1 |
| privacy violation | $224,450,000 | 7 |
| wage and hour violation | $117,668,907 | 7 |
| consumer protection violation | $19,000,000 | 1 |
| employment discrimination | $14,835,052 | 2 |
Notes: Parent-subsidiary linkages are based on relationships current as of the latest revision listed in the
Update Log, which may vary from what was the case when a violation occurred. The penalty totals are adjusted to account for the fact that the individual entries below 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. The totals 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 list below.
Links: Subsidy Tracker data on financial assistance to this company by federal, state and local government agencies can be found
here.
For an overview of assistance this company is receiving under the CARES Act, see its Covid Stimulus Watch summary page
here.
Individual Penalty Records:
Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case.
| Company | Primary Offense Type | Year | Agency | Penalty Amount  |
| Google Inc. | off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products | 2011 | FDA | $500,000,000 |
| Google LLC | privacy violation | 2019 | FTC | $170,000,000 |
| Google Inc. | wage and hour violation | 2015 | private lawsuit-federal | $103,750,000 |
| Google LLC and YouTube LLC | 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 |
| Google Inc. | privacy violation | 2012 | FTC | $22,500,000 |
| Google Inc. | consumer protection violation | 2014 | FTC | $19,000,000 |
| Google Inc. | privacy violation | 2013 | MULTI-AG | $17,000,000 |
| Google LLC | employment discrimination | 2019 | private lawsuit-federal | $11,000,000 |
| Google | privacy violation | 2021 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,500,000 |
| Google | privacy violation | 2013 | MULTI-AG | $7,000,000 |
| Google | wage and hour violation | 2017 | private lawsuit-state | $5,500,000 |
| Google | wage and hour violation | 2017 | private lawsuit-state | $4,750,000 |
| Google LLC | employment discrimination | 2021 | OFCCP | $3,835,052 |
| Google LLC and Vaco LLC | wage and hour violation | 2022 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,500,000 |
| Google Fiber | wage and hour violation | 2017 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,286,250 |
| Google Inc. | wage and hour violation | 2018 | private lawsuit-state | $875,000 |
| DoubleClick Inc. | privacy violation | 2002 | MULTI-AG | $450,000 |
| Google, LLC | campaign finance violation | 2021 | WA-AG | $423,659 |
| Google | campaign finance violation | 2018 | WA-AG | $217,000 |
| Google, Inc. | environmental violation | 2009 | GA-ENV | $40,000 |
| DoubleClick, Inc. | wage and hour violation | 2007 | WHD | $7,657 |
