Tag: fine
Google to pay US$29.5 million in two location tracking lawsuits
Google has agreed to pay a total of $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits brought by Indiana and Washington, D.C., over its “deceptive”...
Google fined $113 million in India, ordered to allow third-party payments
India’s antitrust watchdog has hit Google with a $113 million fine for abusing the dominant position of its Google Play Store and ordered the...
Google fined $162 million in India
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined Google INR13.4 billion ($162 million) after a probe spanning several years over anti-competitive practices relating to...
Apple fined $19 million for failing to include chargers with iPhones
Apple has been fined $19 million in Brazil for not including chargers in iPhones sold within the country.
Earlier this year, the Brazilian government fined...
PayPal retracts unintended threat to fine users for ‘misinformation’
PayPal introduced a new policy geared towards fighting misinformation, in which it threatened to fine users $2,500 for spreading “misinformation”, but has since retracted...
Glovo fined $78M for breaching labour laws in Spain
Digital food delivery firm Glovo, which has operations in Ghana, has been slapped with a $78 million fine for breaching labour laws relating to...
TikTok faces £27-million fine in UK over children’s privacy breach
TikTok could face a £27 million ($29 million) fine in the U.K. over a possible breach of U.K. data protection law by failing to...
Morgan Stanley hit with $35m penalty for failing to protect customer...
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MSSB) has been slapped with a $35 million penalty for failing to protect the personal identifying information (PII) of about...
Google loses appeal against record $4billion EU fine
Search Engine giant, Google on Wednesday lost its appeal against a record €4.34billion European Union (EU) fine for using the dominance of its Android...
Brazil stops sale of chargerless iPhone, fines Apple $2.3 million
Brazil’s justice ministry has told Apple to halt sales of iPhones without wall chargers across the country and fined their local unit $2.3 million.
The...