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Enforcement timeline
Chronologically-ordered enforcement actions linked to the instruments and topics tracked in the Policy Window catalog. Closed cases sort by their resolution year; ongoing cases sort by initiation. Each entry links to the catalog topics + the catalog instruments the case touches, and (where possible) to the best-available primary source for the action.
13 catalogued cases total · 1 match the current filter (year = 2018; topic = Individual Redress; instrument = Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI) clear all.
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- Open arrow = ongoing (no resolution year yet)
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2018 → 2022 · US
HUD / DOJ v. Facebook (ad-targeting Fair Housing Act)
Enforcer: US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) + Department of Justice (DOJ)
Target: Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook)
Violation alleged: Facebook's ad-delivery and ad-targeting tools (including 'Special Ad Audience' / Lookalike Audiences) allowed advertisers to exclude users on the basis of protected classes (race, colour, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, disability), and the platform's algorithmic delivery further skewed ad reach.
Lesson: First major US federal settlement holding a platform liable for discriminatory algorithmic delivery under a pre-AI civil-rights statute. DOJ settlement (June 2022) required Meta to develop a new 'Variance Reduction System' to redress racially-skewed ad delivery + sunset the Special Ad Audience tool. Establishes that algorithmic-delivery discrimination — not just user-facing targeting options — is reachable under FHA. Subsequently cited as the template for analogous reasoning under ECOA (lending) and ADEA (employment).
Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-groundbreaking-settlement-agreement-meta-platforms-formerly-knownregulator landing
Editorial scope
This timeline reflects enforcement cases tracked in the Policy Window catalog. It is not exhaustive; coverage focuses on high-precedent matters relevant to the catalogued instruments (currently 13 cases across EU, US, UK, China, India, Italy, France). The catalog deliberately omits routine regulator letters and ongoing investigations whose materials are not public.
For the inclusion rubric (when a case enters the catalog, what level of source-defensibility is required, how jurisdictional balance is managed), see /wiki/methodology. Cases marked “ongoing” remain editorial-watch items; outcomes get backfilled as the public record settles.