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 FTC 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