Neowin News Feed for: Fined

TikTok hit with 530 million euro fine by Irish regulator

Paul Hill — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:00:01 +0000

TikTok has been fined 530 million euros by the Irish Data Protection Commission for sending European users' data to China. Read more...

TikTok is hit with a £12.7 million UK fine for violating its own children access rules

John Callaham — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:52:01 +0000

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. Read more...

TikTok fined a whopping €750,000 for "violating children's privacy"

Sayan Sen — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:16:02 +0000

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. Read more...

Apple to pay €318 million fine for tax fraud in Italy

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:34:01 +0000

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. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Thief returns tablet to charity shop due to his inability to use it

Usama Jawad — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 08:26:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Russian teacher fined in Microsoft piracy case

Mon, 07 May 2007 13:53:15 +0000

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... Read more...

Samsung Fined $90 Million for DRAM Price Fixing

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:50:19 +0000

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... Read more...

Dutch man fined for 9 billion spam e-mails

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 06:28:55 +0000

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... Read more...

Underage BitTorrent Admins Fined $60,000 Each

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:39:07 +0000

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... Read more...

Florida Spammer Fined $11 Billion

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:09:16 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft Fined £331m ($613m)

Tom Warren — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:58:11 +0000

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... Read more...

PayPal fined $150,000

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:34:51 +0000

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. ... Read more...

Man fined for Internet kidney sale

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:02:19 +0000

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. ... Read more...

Hasbro fined for toy price fixing

Marcel Klum — Mon, 02 Dec 2002 09:09:37 +0000

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... Read more...

Kimble 'hacker' fined €100,000

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 May 2002 20:46:45 +0000

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... Read more...