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Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue
Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appeal The UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit £14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data.…
The European Commission said today that TikTok is facing a fine because its addictive features, including infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and personalized recommendation systems, are breaching the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). [...]
Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine Ofcom is continuing with its investigation into X, despite the social media platform saying it will block Grok from digitally undressing people.…
Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway Privacy advocates at Noyb filed a criminal complaint against Clearview AI for scraping social media users' faces without consent to train its AI algorithms.…
Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.…
'Success Stories' Social Media Program Impermissibly Disclosed PHI of 150 PatientsA "Success Stories" marketing campaign by a Delaware nursing home that involved posting photos and names of patients on social media resulted in a $182,000 federal fine. Regulators say the company violated HIPAA rules through the unauthorized disclosure of patients' protected health information.
A new probe, opened two months after a €530m fine to TikTok, will investigate the tech giant’s storage of EU users’ data in China
The UK ICO has welcomed a ruling in its favor in a long-running battle to issue a fine to TikTok
How IT Leaders Can Navigate Regulatory Complexity, Use Tech for Digital SovereigntyFrom Schrems II to TikTok fines, data sovereignty is redefining the rules of digital engagement. It is no longer an option for enterprises. CIOs must navigate a maze of data laws and tech strategies to stay compliant and competitive in a world without digital borders.
European regulators sent an unmistakable message about messing around with GDPR-protected data. How can organizations avoid similar compliance hassles?
Ireland’s data protection watchdog accuses the Chinese social media giant of violating GDPR with transfers of European users’ data to China
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Tuesday fined popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million ($601 million) for infringing data protection regulations in the region by transferring European users' data to China
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union's GDPR data protection regulations. [...]
Irish DPC Imposes a Fine for GDPR ViolationsTikTok must pay 530 million euros to the Irish data regulator for non-compliance with European privacy law. The nearly $600 million fine stems from TikTok's storage of European user data on servers in China and failure to disclose data transfers to China from July 2020 through November 2022.
European Commission Also Fines Apple 500 Million EurosEuropean regulators said Facebook conducted an end run around privacy regulations by requiring users to pay a monthly subscription fee or else accept that their personal data would be fed to advertisers. The European Commission fined the social media giant 200 million euros.
eSafety Regulator Seeks Platform's Policy on Extremist and Child Sexual ContentAustralia regulators on Monday fined social networking company Telegram nearly AU$1 million for delaying its response to questions on how the company regulates violent, extremist and child sexual content on its platform. Telegram was the only social media firm to miss a May 6 deadline.
Social Platforms Also Could Face Stiff Fines for Failing to Protect UsersThe Australian government passed the Scams Prevention Framework law in Parliament to make social media companies, banks and telecommunication companies accountable for scammers using their networks, subjecting them to a maximum of AU$50 million in fines for violations.
Also: Interpol Says 'Pig Butchering' Shames Victims, A Data Leak Scandal in MexicoThis week, U.S. asks Israel to extradite an alleged LockBit coder, don't say "pig butchering," and an Apache Struts flaw. A hunt for alleged data thieves in Mexico, Europe probes TikTok and Netfilix fined 4.75 million. A ransomware attack against Texas medical centers and a credit union breach.
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) for a 2018 data breach that impacted millions of users in the bloc, in what's the latest financial hit the company has taken for flouting stringent privacy laws