State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to accelerate through 2028. Annual cumulative fines stood at $1.827 billion in 2024, putting the 2025 result at nearly double the previous year’s level. Gartner derived the estimate by compiling and aggregating enforcement actions and statutory private rights of action tied to state and federal privacy laws. A turning point for … More → The post US state privacy fines reached $3.425 billion in 2025 appeared first on Help Net Security .