Norway wants Facebook fined for illegal data transfers – European regulators are finalizing a decision blocking Meta from transferring data to the US social media facebook Article 569 words 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 social media Article 390 words 7 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 Article 461 words 8 votes
Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney social media facebook Article 613 words 14 votes
Brazil’s consumer protection regulator fines Apple $2M for not including charger in iPhone 12 box apple smartphones Link 11 votes
Grindr fined 10% of their global annual revenue ($11.7 million) in Norway for sharing deeply personal information with advertisers, including location, sexual orientation and mental health details social media Article 496 words 28 votes
Russia may fine citizens who use SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service internet.satellite Article 471 words 13 votes
Twitter about to be hit with a ~$250 million fine for using your two factor authentication phone numbers/emails for marketing security privacy social media Article 629 words 21 votes
Woolworths pays the Australian Communications and Media Authority $1 million fine for spam marketing emails Article 637 words 6 votes
French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers 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 privacy google Article 677 words 11 votes
Swedish data protection agency has issued the country's first GDPR fine after a school was found improperly using facial recognition technology privacy Article 346 words 7 votes
FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and sweeping new privacy restrictions on Facebook social media facebook privacy Article 2139 words 6 votes
FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion facebook social media privacy Article 1139 words 22 votes
Facebook faces a big penalty, but regulators are split over how big facebook social media privacy Article 1899 words 15 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 Article 765 words 7 votes
Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law privacy Article 760 words 10 votes
The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses 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 privacy google Article 1323 words 12 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 Article 446 words 2 votes