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The largest fine for violating GDPR at the time. Related to targeted advertising. [72] [73] 2021-09-02 WhatsApp Ireland Ltd: €225 M Ireland [74] 2021-12-16 Psykoterapiakeskus Vastaamo: €608,000 Finland Failure to protect sensitive medical data. [75] 2022-12-14 Viking Line: €230,000 Finland
Since Elizabeth Denham was appointed Britain's Information Commissioner in 2016, the ICO has undertaken high-profile investigations into Equifax, Yahoo, Talk Talk, Uber, and Facebook; issuing the maximum fine under the Data Protection Act 1998 of £500,000 to Facebook, [9] for breaches of data protection law. Denham has also overseen the ...
Britain's data privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), can impose fines of up to 500,000 pounds for serious breaches of the country's data protection rules, while Britain's ...
In 2019 the ICO announced it intended to issue a fine for 1.5% of the airline's 2017 turnover, amounting to £183.39 million. [5] After negotiations with the ICO British Airways was fined £20 million by the Information Commissioner's Office in October 2020. [5] The financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic was cited as one reason for the ...
In this article we are going to list the 15 biggest corporate fines in history. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 5 biggest corporate fines in history. Take a look at major companies and their ...
Europe’s privacy watchdogs tell AI companies what they must do to avoid big GDPR fines. David Meyer. Updated December 18, 2024 at 4:35 PM. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in December 2024 in New York City.
In May, the ICO for a new web browser called Brave generated about $35 million in under 30 seconds. [13] Messaging app developer Kik's September 2017 ICO raised nearly $100 million. At the start of October 2017, ICO coin sales worth $2.3 billion had been conducted during the year, more than ten times as much as in all of 2016.
On 27 June 2017, Google was found guilty and was fined €2.4 billion (about US$2.7 billion), the largest such antitrust fine issued by the EC. [9] Google has denied the European Union's accusations against them and made a statement claiming "its services had helped the region's digital economy grow". [10]