2026-06-11
What 256 settlements say about what websites actually get sued for
When we ran this analysis, Complidar's database held 256 cited website-compliance settlements: $5.56B across 18 jurisdictions, every case on the public record. It keeps growing; the lawsuit tracker has the current totals. We ran the distributions on the strictest slice of that data. The shape of the numbers says more than the totals: frequency and severity are nearly inverted, the dollars are wildly concentrated, and the public record is best read as a ceiling.
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