Enforcement

TOPLINE: Google may have to pay a record €4.125 billion ($4.12 billion) fine to the European Union in an antitrust case linked to its Android operating system for smartphones after losing a court appeal on Wednesday, a ruling that is likely to bolster the bloc’s ability to crackdown on big…

Beauty retailer Sephora was fined $1.2 million by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and is the first-ever California Consumer Privacy Act enforcement action. At the heart of the matter is Sephora allegedly misrepresenting its actions to California consumers (saying that it did not sell consumer personal information despite the fact…

Uber’s former security officer, Joe Sullivan, is standing trial this week in what is believed to be the first case of an executive facing criminal charges in relation to a data breach. The US district court in San Francisco will start hearing arguments on whether Sullivan, the former head of security at…

The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta-owned social media platform Instagram €405 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation. The fine, which is the second-highest fine under the GDPR after a €746 million penalty against Amazon, is the third for a Meta-owned company handed down by the Irish regulator. In…

Businesses barely had time to recover from a hectic privacy summer, with U.S. privacy legislation making progress on the Hill and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s launch of a sweeping rulemaking initiative, when California Attorney General Rob Bonta dropped a bombshell: The first enforcement settlement under the California Consumer Privacy Act. Pursuant…

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018. It made Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) the lead EU supervisory authority for all companies that have their European headquarters here. This quirk of the law made Ireland a central jurisdiction in the global digital economy. It…

The European Union’s assault on controversial facial image aggregator Clearview AI continued Wednesday, with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) in Greece the latest to penalize the company for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The HDPA fined the company 20 million euros (U.S. $19.9 million)—a record in…

Telecom Decision CRTC 2022-160 PDF version Reference: 2021-132 Ottawa, 15 June 2022 Public record: 1011-NOC2021-0132 Imposition of an administrative monetary penalty on Bell Canada in relation to the processing and granting of access permit applications for support structures in accordance with its National Services Tariff The Commission imposes an administrative monetary penalty…

It’s FTC 101. Companies can’t tell consumers they will use their personal information for one purpose and then use it for another. But according to the FTC, that’s the kind of digital bait-and-switch Twitter pulled on unsuspecting consumers. Twitter asked users for personal information for the express purpose of securing their…

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is among the world’s toughest data protection laws. Under the GDPR, the EU’s data protection authorities can impose fines of up to up to €20 million (roughly $20,372,000), or 4% of worldwide turnover for the preceding financial year – whichever is higher. Since the…