The failures include mishandling transaction disputes and misleading iPhone purchasers about interest-free payment options.
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An Australian court has fined X A$610,500 (approximately $418,000) for failing to comply with regulatory inquiries regarding child abuse content.
The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta €91 million for storing passwords in plain text that were accessible to thousands of Meta employees.
South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) has fined Samsung following an incident where two workers were hospitalized after radiation exposure.
The General Court of the EU has annulled a €1.49 billion fine on Google by the European Commission that had targeted its online advertising practices.
A lawsuit filed against Meta in 2022 over its use of facial recognition software has led to, by far, the largest settlement ever obtained from an action brought by a single U.S. state.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has fined CBPL, a Coinbase subsidiary, for allowing high-risk customers use its services to get access to crypto assets. It has been fined £3.5 million.
Apple is formally challenging the European Commission's €1.8 billion fine for unfair trade practices related to music streaming services, stating that there's no evidence of any such behaviour.
BT has been fined £2,800,000 by Ofcom for failing to provide a summary of its contracts to EE and Plusnet customers before they signed up. BT will also have to let people exit contracts without fees.
The FCC has fined major U.S. wireless carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, nearly $200 million for illegally sharing customers' location data without consent despite knowing.
Amazon has been fined by the Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) €10 million for an alleged unfair practice where it pre-selected an option for customers to subscribe to frequent deliveries.
The European Union is likely to fine Apple early next month to the tune of half a billion euros for using its powerful position to hurt its competition in the music space such as Spotify.
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has charged a $10.8 million fine on Uber for infringing data privacy regulations. It suggests that users are unaware of how their data is being used and shared.
Meta has been under the radar of the Turkish competition board since 2022 after it stated that Meta violated the competition law. Today, it has placed another fine that needs to be paid daily
Shell Energy was fined £1.4 million by the regulator Ofcom for not properly informing customers that they were out of contract or that their contract was coming to an end. The issue is now resolved.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has today published its final decision on its inquiry into TikTok on how it handles the data of young users and has issued a fine of €345 million ($368m).
Google was fined after failing to remove an alleged fake news video about the Russia-Ukraine conflict from YouTube, a Russian district court ruled after the company broke its administrative laws.
TikTok may face another fine by the European Union as the regulator's recent investigation revealed that TikTok had breached child privacy laws and mishandled data of teens between 13 and 17.
Spotify has fallen foul of the EU's General Data Protection Regulations and has been fined SEK 58 million (equivalent to $5.4 million) by a Swedish regulator due to how it handles personal data.
Hacker Gary Bowser from the infamous Team-Xecuter Nintendo piracy group has been released early from prison. However, he will likely be paying off fines to Nintendo for the rest of his life.
The fine from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office says that TikTok allowed over 1.4 million kids under 13 years of age to access its app, in violation of TikTok's own terms of service.
Russian courts have recently issued a $57,000 fine to Amazon-owned Twitch for failing to remove content about its military campaign in Ukraine which it reportedly says is falsified.
Meta has been hit with a €5.5 million fine for violating GDPR rules with its WhatsApp messenger. A complainant said users were forced to agree to data processing to use WhatsApp and this broke rules.
Meta has said it will appeal against two fines from the Irish DPC which total €390 million. It was fined because of GDPR violations which were raised by two complainants in May 2018.
Tesla has been fined $2.2 million by South Korea's Fair Trade Commission. The regulator says the company mislead customers through false advertising that exaggerated its cars' capabilities.
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Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly covers a quieter week where we learned about a couple more Windows bugs along with a few patches, a fine on Microsoft Bing, and some Teams and Excel updates.
Microsoft has been fined €60 million for not giving Bing users a way to reject cookies. French data protection agency CNIL said Microsoft should get consent to use ad fraud detection cookies too.
Google and iHeartMedia have reached a settlement with the FTC after the two were accused of paying radio hosts for endorsements of the Pixel 4 even though the endorsers hadn't used the phone.
Facebook's parent company Meta has been hit by a fine of €265 million from the Data Protection Commission (Ireland) for violating people's privacy. There are still 13 outstanding inquiries pending.
Google has been handed a $113 million fine by India's antitrust watchdog for forcing consumers and developers to use only its own billing mechanisms for purchases from the Google Play Store.
The provisional views of the UK's Information Commissioner's Office suggest TikTok has fallen short of giving adequate protection to children under data privacy laws. It could face a £27 million fine.
Google has lost its appeal in the EU General Court for a case that required it to pay a €4.34 billion fine. Although this fine has been slightly reduced now, it is still its biggest penalty in the EU.
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Meta and Google have collectively been fined $72 million in South Korea for not clearly informing users prior to collecting their data to analyze their interests and behaviors to display custom ads.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission has hit Meta's Instagram with a €405 million fine for exposing e-mail addresses and phone numbers of under-18s. It's believed to have affected millions of kids.
EU antitrust regulators have decided not to appeal Qualcomm's victory against the €997 million ($991 million) fine it received back in 2018 for paying Apple to use its chips in iPhones and iPads.
Responding to a ruling issued last year, Google has agreed to pay a $60 million fine in Australia for misleading customers about its data collection practices when it comes to your location history.
Samsung has been fined $14 million for misleading advertisements about seven Galaxy phones being water-resistant. The phones were damaged after being used in swimming pools and ocean water.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Nvidia for not telling investors that their rise in revenue in 2018 was due to cryptomining interest rather than its gaming business.
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Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has been sentenced to over five years in prison and a $100,000 fine for helping North Korea in leveraging cryptocurrencies to evade U.S. sanctions.
Intel has seen a major victory in court as a 2009 European Commission ruling and a $1.2 billion fine against it for anticompetitive behavior and practices to stifle AMD has been overturned.
