The lie that made me. How I learned the horrifying truth about my biological father. ~life Article 5745 words, published Feb 22 2022 6 votes
Norway's data privacy watchdog fines Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users' consent ~tech social media Article 390 words 7 votes
Norway have been fined 1,500 euros for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms at the European Beach Handball Championships ~sports Article 271 words 15 votes
Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open, takes break from tennis, one day after tennis’ Grand Slams threatened disqualification or suspension if she continued to skip press conferences ~sports tennis.womens Article 832 words 23 votes
Tesla was found guilty of throttling charging speed and battery capacity through a software update in Norway – thirty owners behind the lawsuit awarded 136,000 kroner ~transport Article 461 words 8 votes
Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney ~tech social media facebook Article 613 words 14 votes
Brazil’s consumer protection regulator fines Apple $2M for not including charger in iPhone 12 box ~tech apple Link 11 votes
Antitrust: EU Commission fines Valve and five publishers of PC video games €7.8 million for “geo-blocking” practices ~games Link 8 votes
Russia may fine citizens who use SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service ~tech internet.satellite Article 471 words 13 votes
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business ~finance business Article 540 words 17 votes
Woolworths pays the Australian Communications and Media Authority $1 million fine for spam marketing emails ~tech Article 637 words 6 votes
Sweden's financial watchdog hit lender Swedbank with a record fine for serious deficiencies in its management of money laundering risks in its Baltic operations ~finance banking Article 457 words 5 votes
French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers ~tech apple Article 740 words 9 votes
Sweden fines Google $8 million for right-to-be-forgotten violations – a failure to comply with Europe's GDPR after they failed to adequately remove search results ~tech privacy google Article 677 words 11 votes
Germany’s North Channel Bank has been fined 110 million Danish crowns by a court in Denmark for its involvement in a dividend stripping scheme ~finance banking Article 62 words 5 votes
European Broadcasting Union fines Iceland for their band's display of Palestinian scarves during the contest's final in Israel ~music Article 230 words 7 votes
Google to pay up to $200M to settle FTC investigation into YouTube over violations of children's privacy laws ~tech google privacy social media Article 154 words 7 votes
Swedish data protection agency has issued the country's first GDPR fine after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology ~tech privacy Article 346 words 7 votes
FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and sweeping new privacy restrictions on Facebook ~tech social media facebook privacy Article 2139 words 6 votes
US Federal Trade Commission approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion ~tech facebook social media privacy Article 1139 words 22 votes
Facebook faces a big penalty, but US regulators are split over how big ~tech facebook social media privacy Article 1899 words 15 votes
Facebook releases Q1 2019 earnings, expects to be fined up to $5 billion by US government ~tech facebook Article 13 votes
FTC hits "predatory" scientific publisher with a $50 million fine ~news journalism usa Article 967 words 13 votes
Office Depot and tech support firm Support.com will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that they tricked consumers into buying costly computer repair services ~tech Article 765 words 7 votes
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules ~tech google Article 1354 words 14 votes
Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law ~tech privacy Article 760 words 10 votes
US Supreme Court unanimously rules that the Constitution's ban on 'excessive fines' applies to the states as well as the federal government ~news usa Article 512 words 17 votes
The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 623 words 24 votes
The CNIL has imposed a penalty of fifty million euros against Google for breaches of the GDPR ~tech privacy google Article 1323 words 12 votes
Travellers to New Zealand refusing digital search now face NZ$5000 Customs fine at border ~travel Article 483 words 15 votes
YouTube and Facebook could escape billions in copyright payouts after EU vote. Lawmakers reject overhaul of rules which aimed to make tech giant's pay a bigger share. ~tech facebook Article 446 words 2 votes
Mexico fined £7,600 for homophobic chant aimed at Germany's Manuel Neuer ~sports.football Article 304 words 6 votes
Commonwealth Bank to pay record $700m to settle money-laundering case ~finance banking Article 633 words 5 votes
NFL clubs to be fined if players kneel during anthem ~sports.american_football Article 995 words 19 votes
NFL teams will be fined if players kneel during national anthem ~sports.american_football Article 1696 words 8 votes