Intel ordered to pay $2.18 billion in patent lawsuit

Posted on 03/03/2021 by Engadget

Intel has been ordered to pay $2.18 billion dollars after losing a lawsuit over two decade-old patents, Bloomberg has reported. A jury ruled that Intel infringed patents related to clock frequencies and voltage owned by a company called VLSI LLC. &qu...

Ticketmaster pays $10 million fine after hacking a startup rival

Posted on 31/12/2020 by Engadget

Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine to avoid prosecution over charges that it illegally accessed a rival’s computer system, Reuters has reported. “Ticketmaster employees repeatedly — and illegally — accessed a competitor’s comp...

California fines Uber $59 million for not sharing sexual assault case data

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Engadget

Uber has been fined $59 million by California regulators over its refusal to hand over more detailed data from a 2019 report on sexual assault, the Washington Post reports. State regulators have threatened to pull its license if it doesn’t comply wit...

Facebook fined $6.1 million in South Korea for sharing user data without consent

Posted on 25/11/2020 by Engadget

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has slapped Facebook with a 6.7 billion won (around US$6.1 million) fine for sharing user information without consent. The Korea Communications Commission kickstarted the investigation i...

Telegram to pay $18.5 million and return $1.2 billion following SEC crypto charges

Posted on 30/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Telegram’s initial bid to launch its “Gram” cryptocurrency has failed. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that in order to resolve charges of violating federal securities laws, it has ordered Telegram to return more than...

Sony fined $2.4 million over illegal return policy in Australia

Posted on 05/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Four PlayStation users in Australia contacted Sony Europe, believing that their downloaded games were faulty. Sony told those customers that the company did not have to refund them once a game was downloaded, or after 14 days had passed. That goes ag...

Canada fines Facebook almost $6.5 million over ‘false’ data privacy claims

Posted on 20/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Facebook is coughing up for another fine. This time the social network is handing over CAD$9 million (US$6.5 million / £5.3 million) to Canada as part of a settlement over the way it handled users’ personal information between August 2012 and June 20...

Apple hit with record-breaking $1.2 billion antitrust fine in France

Posted on 16/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Apple has been hit with a record-breaking fine for antitrust practices. French competition authority Autorité de la Concurrence has found Apple and its wholesale distribution partners Ingram Micro and Tech Data guilty of running a cartel for A...

France threatens large fines and possible jail time for e-bike mods

Posted on 12/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

France does not look kindly upon e-bike owners that hot rod their wheels. The country has just introduced a law that could see "offenders" slapped with a maximum fine of €30,000 (US$34,000), and up to a year in jail. And they could have their dr...

FCC proposes token fines for carriers that sold phone location data

Posted on 28/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The rumors were true: the FCC wants to fine major carriers for their approach to selling phone location data. The regulator has proposed a total of $208 million in fines against the top four US carriers for reportedly selling access to location info...

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