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Meta Fined By Norway For 1,000,000 Krone Over Privacy Breaches
Meta has been fined by Norway for 1,000,000 Krone (£76,204) per day over privacy breaches as reported by reuters.com Meta Fined Again Meta being fined for data privacy is just another Monday at this point and this time it’s the Norwegian data protection authority making the fine. The regulator, Datatilsynet,…
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Google Fined $32.5 Million In Sonos Patent Infringement Claim
Google has been fined $32.5 million for infringing on one of Sonos‘ speaker patents. Google Fined For Sonos Patent Infringement As revealed by Techspot a San Francisco jury on Friday found Google guilty of infringing upon one of Sonos’ patents for their speakers, specifically U.S patent number 10,848,885. This patent…
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Meta Fined Record $1.3 Billion Over EU Data Privacy Concerns
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been slapped with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine by EU data regulators over the transfer of EU data to the US. Meta Hit With $1.3 Billion Fine As reported by The Verge, The EU data regulators have ordered Meta to stop transferring the…
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Seagate Fined $300 Million for Shipping 7 Million Hard Drives to Huawei
Seagate has been ordered to pay a £300 million penalty for shipping over 7 Million hard drives to Huawei in violation of U.S Export control laws. Seagate Fined $300 Million According to the report from Reuters Seagate has been fined by US authorities for shipping over $1.1 billion worth of…
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Intel Demands €593M From EU Over Contested Anti-Competition Ruling!
Back in 2009, an EU commission ruled that Intel had engaged in anti-competition practices and subsequently fined them a monumentally hefty €1.05BN. An amount that, to my knowledge, still remains the biggest financial penalty ever issued within the tech world. – In something that I daresay doesn’t surprise many of…
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Nvidia Fined $5.5M For Deliberately Blurring GPU Sales to the Crypto Market!
It has widely been speculated for quite some time now that when it has come to Nvidia’s end-of-year financial reports, they have always been somewhat deliberately vague about how much money the company has earned through the direct sale of graphics cards to cryptocurrency mining organisations. – This issue first…
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Facebook Fined In German Intellectual Property Dispute
This is a story that dates back to four years ago when a German court found that Facebook’s terms and conditions did not address the circumstances in which users intellectual property could be used by Facebook or even licensed to third parties. That still seems to be an issue as a…
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Canadian Apple Watch User Fined for Using it While Driving
Do you use a smartwatch? Does your place has distracted-driving laws? If yes, you should be careful while operating it while driving. A man has got himself ticketed by the police in Quebec for using his Apple Watch while driving as reported by CTV News. They noted that under Quebec laws,…
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Panasonic Guilty Of Price Fixing Car Parts & Laptop Batteries, Fined $56.5 Million
Panasonic have pleaded guilty to charges that they conspired to fix prices in two major markets, laptop battery packs and auto parts, of course we are a little more interested in the battery scandal than we are the car parts but it is still good to see that justice caught…
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