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Reconquest!, Eric Zemmour’s party, fined 20,000 euros for illegal data collection
Corentin Béchade February 14, 2024 at 7:49 a.m. 9 Eric Zemmour’s party was singled out by the CNIL © Frederic Legrand — COMEO / Shutterstock The personal data policeman has…
Fake drugs: eBay fined $59 million for selling pharmaceutical pill presses
Samir Rahmoune February 5, 2024 at 7:28 a.m. 0 The eBay logo © eBay eBay opened its marketplace to the sale of pharmaceutical equipment that could be used for drug…
Victory for French VTCs, Uber is fined 10 million euros for breaches of the GDPR
Corentin Béchade February 1, 2024 at 10:01 a.m. 0 A complaint by French drivers resulted in a fine against Uber © MOZCO Mateusz Szymanski / Shutterstock Bad surprise for Uber.…
Amazon fined 32 million euros by the CNIL for abusive surveillance of its employees
Samir Rahmoune January 23, 2024 at 7:25 p.m. 8 An Amazon warehouse © MargJohnsonVA / Shutterstock.com The CNIL has just announced that Amazon will be fined 32 million euros. Jeff…
“I do not apologize and I do not regret”: Maïwenn fined 400 euros for attacking Edwy Plenel
In May 2023, guest on the show Quotidien, director Maïwenn (“Jeanne du Barry”) admitted to having attacked journalist Edwy Plenel, founder of Mediapart. The Paris police court delivered its verdict…
Fetal pigs, funeral wreaths, spiders… How eBay was fined 3 million for the harassment of a couple of bloggers
Stéphane Ficca Hardware & gaming specialist January 13, 2024 at 2:04 p.m. 5 eBay to settle $3 million fine… for intimidation and harassment © eBay eBay agreed to pay a…
Critical bloggers tyrannized: Ebay fined millions
Critical bloggers tyrannized Ebay fined millions January 12, 2024, 4:45 a.m If there is unpleasant reporting, companies usually call in their legal or PR department. At Ebay, on the other…
Sony fined 13.5 million euros for anti-competitive practices
The official controller for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) is called Dualshock 4. It was launched at the same time as the console, in November 2013. YUYA SHINO / REUTERS The…
Binance fined $2.7 billion for violating anti-money laundering rules
©Reuters UNITED STATES – Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and its CEO Changpeng Zhao have been ordered by a US court to pay substantial fines for violations of anti-money…
Rolex France fined 91.6 million euros for prohibiting its distributors from selling its watches online
The Competition Authority announced on Tuesday December 19 that it would impose a fine of 91.6 million euros on the French subsidiary of the Swiss watch manufacturer Rolex, while the…
Giuliani, ex-Trump lawyer, fined $148 million for defamation
Published on 12/15/2023 at 11:19 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters by Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald…
Snapchat star, this French influencer is fined 50,000 euros for deceptive commercial practices
Mallory Delicourt November 30, 2023 at 5:48 p.m. 10 Social networks have been a real sales space for several years © Frco / Shutterstock.com With 1.6 million subscribers on Snapchat,…