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The fine from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office says that TikTok allowed over 1.4 million kids under 13 years of age to access its app, in violation of TikTok's own terms of service.

John Callaham · Apr 4, 2023 with 5 comments

TikTok has been fined a huge sum of money by the Dutch DPA, a sum total of €750,000, for not appropriately communicating its app's data privacy and usage policy, in accordance with the EU's GDPR.

Sayan Sen · Jul 22, 2021 with 7 comments

An investigation into Apple Italia tax payments have resulted in the Italian subsidiary being fined €318 million for tax fraud, over a five year period from 2008 to 2013.

Andrew Stevenson · Dec 30, 2015 · Hot! with 29 comments

A man stole an Android tablet from a charity shop in Tyneside, England, but had to return it after eight days. The reason was brilliantly ridiculous: he couldn't figure out how to operate it.

Usama Jawad · Dec 30, 2014 · Hot! with 13 comments

A court has fined Russian headmaster Alexander Ponosov 5,000 roubles (or $194.40) or half his monthly wage, for allowing pupils to use 12 computers with unlicensed copies of Microsoft Windows and Office software at his...

· May 7, 2007 · Hot! with 15 comments

Throughout 2006, Samsung was under heavy investigation and has recently agreed to pay $90 million USD for participating in illegal DRAM price-fixing practices. The fine is will be divided into: $80 million to be returned...

· Feb 8, 2007 with 4 comments

Dutch telecommunications regulator OPTA has levied the largest fine against an unidentified spammer whom authorities say e-mailed more than 9 billion unwanted advertisements. The Netherlands outlawed spam in May 2004. The man is being charged...

· Feb 3, 2007 · Hot! with 8 comments

Four out of eight administrators of the Finnish BitTorrent tracker "Finreactor" have been declared guilty in court and have to pay damages totaling 60,000 dollars each. The lawsuit against Finreactor has just come to a...

· Oct 27, 2006 · Hot! with 24 comments

A US District court has ordered a Florida man accused of sending large volumes of spam to pay fines of $11.2 billion to a small Iowa-based ISP. CIS Internet Services in a lawsuit filed...

· Jan 5, 2006 · Hot! with 2 comments

As predicted, Microsoft have been fined 497 Million Euros ($613m, Â£331m). This is approximately 8% of the profit Microsoft makes in Europe. EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti is giving Microsoft 90 days to comply with...

Tom Warren · Mar 24, 2004 with -1 comments

The nation's largest online payment service, PayPal, is paying New York $150,000 in penalties after misrepresenting to consumers its policy on repayment when merchandise doesn't arrive, the state attorney general said Monday. ...

· Mar 9, 2004 with -1 comments

A German court has sentenced a man for trying to sell one of his kidneys on the Internet to a four month suspended jail sentence and fined him 2,000 euros ($2,300), authorities said Tuesday. ...

Michael Stanclift · Jul 16, 2003 with -1 comments

US toy firm Hasbro has been fined Â£4.95m ($7.7m) by the Office of Fair Trading for forcing distributors to fix toy and game prices in the UK. UK toy sales are worth Â£1.7bn a...

Marcel Klum · Dec 2, 2002 with -1 comments

Thanks ice-xp Schmitz convicted of insider trading Self-proclaimed uber hacker Kim 'Kimble' Schmitz was yesterday convicted of insider trading and sentenced to 20 months probation and a €100,000 fine. Schmitz, who was...

Daniel Fleshbourne · May 28, 2002 with -1 comments