Cyber Security
Meta fined €1.2bn for violating GDPR
Facebook’s owner Meta has been fined €1.2bn ($1.3bn) by EU regulators for mishandling Facebook user’s data when transferring it between Europe and the ...
Cyber Security
WhatsApp fined €5.5m for GDPR violations
The popular messaging app WhatsApp has been fined €5.5m by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the General Data Protection Regulation ...
Cyber Security
TikTok fined $5.4 M by France for violating cookie laws
Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million (about $5.4 million) by the French data protection watchdog for violating cookie ...
Cyber Security
Amazon hit with record $888 Million GDPR fine for behavioral advertising
Amazon has been hit with a record-breaking €746 million fine for alleged GDPR violations for how it performs targeted behavioral advertising. The huge ...
Protect
German laptop retailer fined €10.4m for video-monitoring employees
Online laptop and electronic goods retailer NBB was fined €10.4M by German data regulator LfD for video-monitoring employees.
Data Breaches
Marriott fined £18.4m for customer data breach
Marriott International hotel chain has been fined £18.4m for a data breach that exposed the information of millions of guests worldwide. The Information ...
Cyber Security
H&M fined €35.2m for GDPR violations
H&M, the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer was fined for violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A German subsidiary of Hennes ...
Data Breaches
Airbnb at risk of massive fine for data breach
Airbnb suffered a data breach in its system that resulted in the exposure of a limited number of Airbnb hosts to other hosts ...
