July 30, 2024 Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over privacy violations Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought the suit against Meta in February 2022 for unlawfully capturing Texas users’ biometric data without obtaining their informed consent as required by law. BY Jessica Bursztynsky Meta agreed to a record $ 1.4 billion settlement with … Continue reading Meta agrees to $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over privacy violations
Amazon faces nearly $6 million in fines over California labor law violations The company failed to properly notify its warehouse workers about their expected quotas. anna washenko Updated Wed, Jun 19, 2024 ASSOCIATED PRESS The California Labor Commissioner’s office has fined Amazon $5,901,700 for infractions related to a law designed to protect warehouse … Continue reading Amazon faces nearly $6 million in fines over California labor law violations
The EU punishes Apple €1.8 billion (£1.5 billion) for streaming violations Deanna Ritchie Former Editor EU punishes Apple The European Commission has fined Apple €1.8 billion (£1.5 billion) for streaming violations. So,1,800,000,000 EUR is equal to 1,952,277,657 USD @ 1.08 US dollars to 1 Euro. Anyway you figure it, this is a significant fine. The reason is that the … Continue reading The EU punishes Apple €1.8 billion (£1.5 billion) for streaming violations
Meta has five months to put in place measures to halt future data transfers and six months to end U.S. storage of the data it already has. Constantine von Hoffman on May 22, 2023 The European Union fined Meta $ 1.3 billion on Monday saying Facebook’s parent company broke the bloc’s laws by transferring E.U. … Continue reading EU fines Facebook $1.3 billion for privacy violations
Meta fined $414 million in EU for requiring personalized ads Jon Fingas @jonfingas Meta is facing yet another European Union fine. As hinted last month, EU authorities are fining Meta €390 million (about $414 million) after determining that the company illegally required that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users accept personalized ads. The social media … Continue reading EU vows to get tougher on Big Tech privacy violations
Twitter Developers Attempting To Fix Gaps In Hateful Content Violations by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, November 9, 2022 Twitter developers have been working to combat hateful content on the platform, even more so since Elon Musk acquired the company and became the CEO. “We’ve not only mitigated the recent surge in harmful behavior, but have reduced … Continue reading Twitter Developers Attempting To Fix Gaps In Hateful Content Violations
FTC Puts Review Platforms On Notice For Violations by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, February 4, 2022 Ten review management platforms have been placed on notice by the Federal Trade Communication (FTC). Letters went out to the publications, putting them on notice that “avoiding the collection or publication of negative reviews violates the FTC Act.” One letter … Continue reading FTC Puts Review Platforms On Notice For Violations
A spokesperson said Facebook is working to restore the Groups mistakenly taken down. Amy Gesenhues on May 17, 2019 A Reddit thread on Wednesday called attention to many Facebook Groups’ privacy settings being changed to “secret.” The post generated more than 450 comments, with rumors that many Groups had been attacked by a spammer posting … Continue reading Turns out some groups axed by Facebook for content violations were actually hacked
by Luana Spinetti December 16, 2015December 16, 2015 Photo Credit: http://www.candidwriter.com (cc) On September 18h, 2015, a Google Webmaster Blog post came up to shake webmasters and SEOs and give everybody with a website some food for thought — Google is no longer granting an easy and painless reconsideration to those websites that violate Webmaster … Continue reading Google Says Less Reconsideration Chances For Repeated Violations
