This is the deep-dive companion to the 50-case overview: the same real enforcement history, but reorganized into six focused domains — Privacy & Data, Consumer Protection, Fraud, Securities & Crypto, Sanctions & Trade, and IP & Content — for readers who want to study a specific risk area in depth.
The cases included range from the $5 billion Meta privacy settlement down to smaller but equally instructive actions, alongside Epic Games' $520 million penalty for dark-patterns and children's-privacy violations. Documented penalties across the full case set range from $98,000 to $5.9 billion in civil fines, and from 12 months to 110 years in prison for the most serious offenses.
The module is designed to function as a working audit tool rather than a passive read: for each case, the intended exercise is to read the pattern, then honestly ask whether the same pattern could occur inside your own business.
Every case documented here was real, every penalty was actually enforced, and every lesson drawn from it is directly actionable today — which is the standard this entire case library is held to.