UK privacy watchdog fines Clearview AI £7.5m and orders UK data to be deleted
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI £7.5 million ($9.4 million) …
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U.S. Proposes $1 Million Fine on Colonial Pipeline for Safety Violations After Cyberattack
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has proposed a penalty of nearly $1 …
Nvidia to Pay $5.5 Million Fine for Lack of Crypto Mining Disclosures – CNET
Nvidia will pay a $5.5 million fine to settle Security and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to adequately disclose how much of …
SEC Fines Nvidia $5.5 Million for Not Telling Investors Crypto Mining Drove Sales
“Throughout the relevant period, Nvidia’s analysts and investors were interested in understanding the extent to which the company’s …
Irish Watchdog Fines Meta $19m Over Data Breach
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has been fined €17m ($19m) by Ireland’s data regulator. The decision by the Data Protection …
European Regulators Hand Out €1.1bn in GDPR Fines
Europe’s data protection regulators issued over €1bn ($1.1bn) in GDPR fines since January 2021, a massive 594% year-on-year increase, …
Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse
French privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has hit Google with a 150 million euro fine …
Google and Meta fined $237M over user tracking in France – CNET
The tech giants don’t make it easy enough for people to refuse cookie tracking, the watchdog …
FTC: Patch Log4j Now or Risk Major Fines
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has urged US organizations to patch the recently discovered Log4Shell vulnerability or risk facing …
Russia Fines Google $100m Over “Illegal” Content
Russia has slapped American tech company Google with a record-breaking fine for failing to remove “banned content.” A Russian court issued …
ICO Collects Just 26% of Value of Fines Since 2020
ICO Collects Just 26% of Value of Fines Since 2020 The UK’s data protection and privacy regulator is getting worse at collecting the …
DOJ Sues Robocaller to Pay Massive Fine
The United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to recover a financial penalty of nearly $10m that was imposed on a man from …
US DOJ to Fine Contractors for Failure to Report Incidents
The U.S. Department of Justice made several cybersecurity announcements on …
Household Names Hit with £500K Fine for Spamming Consumers
Three big-name UK brands have been collectively fined nearly half a million pounds by the privacy regulator after sending hundreds of …