Expert to French privacy watchdog says Apple should pay a 6 million euro fine

Apple should face a 6 million euro ($6.3 million) fine for breach of privacy a  top advisor to France's data protection authority's penalty board recommended on Monday that Apple be fined 6 million euros ($6.3 million) for violating privacy rules. The CNIL's sanction body can cho...

Jerome Boateng was fined €1.2 million for beating his ex-girlfriend

Jerome Boateng, a German player, was fined €1.2 million for abusing his ex-girlfriend in 2018.

At his appeal trial in Munich, the former international and World Cup winner was found guilty of assault, violence, and insult.

The court heard how he hit and abused his ex-girl...

Malaysia at its Finest in the AUG

The karatekas of Malaysia delivered an excellent performance at the ASEAN Universities Games, (AUG) held in Thailand, winning a total of 3 bronze, 2 silver, and 3 gold medals.

The first gold medal was won in the women's Kumite below 61kg by Siti Nor Azwani Nor Azli on countback afte...

Chinese regulators fine tech giants over anti-monopoly violations

Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings were fined as they failed to report corporate acquisitions. The State Administration for Market Regulation said that the companies have failed to report 43 acquisitions, occurred around eight years ago under rules on "operating concentra...

Japan aims to make online insults punishable by Justice Ministry

The Justice Ministry of Japan has approved punishments, such as prison terms and tough penalties for online insults. This action has been taken to tackle cyberbullying.

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• Justice Ministry of Japan has approved punishments to tackle cyberbullyi...

Around 180 people caught for breaching COVID-19 measures in Singapore by the NEA

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• The NEA has taken enforcement actions against 188 people
• 500 people have been fined since for breaching Covid-19 measures

The National Environment Agency in Singapore has taken enforcement actions against ...

Twitter and Facebook hugely fined in Russia for not deleting banned content

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•  Facebook and Twitter were fined for not deleting the banned content
•  The media regulator has blocked websites linked to Navalny

Russia has fined Facebook and Twitter, these fines were imposed because the so...

AMAZON BOUND TO PAY $62 MILLION TO SETTLE CHARGES FOR NOT PASSING ON TIPS TO DRIVERS

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• The people delivering those packages were independent workers and not Amazon employees

• Instead of paying them, Amazon hid all the customer tips from drivers and repeatedly tried to mislead them

• Amazon continued taking tips till 2019 bu...

JAPAN TO INTRODUCE FINES THAT FAIL TO COMPLY WITH THE COUNTRY’S COVID-19 MEASURES

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• Japan to introduce fines that fail to comply with the country’s COVID-19 measures.
• The bill on the infectious disease law calls for introducing fines of up to 500,000 yen.
• Parliament began deliberations on the ...

UNDERPAYMENT TO EMPLOYEES COST S$119500 TO TWELVE CUPCAKES COMPANY SINGAPORE

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• Twelve Cupcakes was fined S$119,500 for coming up short on seven workers of about S$114,000 more than two years

The local brand, which was established by the previous DJ Daniel Ong and Jaime Teo in 2011 and later purchased over by In...

JAPAN GOVT. TO IMPOSE FINE ON COVID-19 PATIENTS WHO REFUSE TO BE HOSPITALIZED

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• Japan Govt. to impose fine on COVID-19 patients who refuse to be hospitalized.
• The govt. plans to submit the new bill to revise the current infectious disease control law by the end of January.
• The current infectious dise...

UK’S BROADCAST REGULATOR FINED 20,000 POUNDS ON ARNAB GOSWAMI’S SHOW FOR PROMOTING HATRED

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• The broadcast regulator of the United Kingdom has imposed a fine of 20,000 pounds on the Republic Bharat of Arnab Goswami for promoting intolerance and hatred
• The program which has been fined was based on the Chandrayaan 2 space craft miss...

UAE TO FINE UPTO DH2,50,000 AND JAIL IF FOUND GUILTY OF ILLEGAL DATA PROCUREMENT

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• If you are fond of surfing sites, electronic data, PC organizations, or data innovation without earlier authorization in the UAE, you could be detained and fined up to Dh200,000 by the specialists

The UAE Public Prosecution has cauti...

THAI COURT ANNOUNCES FINE OF 10K BAHT PER MEMBER OF THAI FEDERATION MOVEMENT

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• The Court in Thailand fined individuals who formed "Thai Federation" which is considered unlawful and organized meeting at the skywalk in 2018
• The court fixed the amount for fine as 10,000 baht each

The sentence ...

EMIRATES FINED FOR FLYING THROUGH IRANIAN BASE LAST YEAR DURING TENSION ZONE BETWEEN IRAN AND USA

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• The United States Transportation Department fined Emirates air carrier of $400,000 on Thursday for trips through Iranian airspace during a period of increased political strain between the US and Iran a year ago.

Half of the fine will...

SECOND LARGEST AUSTRALIAN BANK FINED FOR FAILING TO REPORT 19 MILLION OVERSEAS TRANSACTIONS

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• Australia's Westpac bank has haggled to pay a record A$1.3bn (£0.7bn; $0.9bn) fine for the country's greatest breach in tax evasion laws.

A year ago, Australia's budgetary wrongdoing guard dog said the bank had negl...

COVID-19 OFFENCES YIELD €6 MILLION IN FINES IN BELGIUM

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• In Belgium, government has imposed many measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
• People violating preventive measures are being fined by the authorities.
• So far € 6 million have been collected in fines.

SOUTH KOREA TO DISSUADE BACK DOOR ONLINE ADVERTISING EVILS

• South Korea will prohibit social media influencers from promoting a new product or service on their online platforms without revealing their business profile linked to their corporate sponsors, officials said Wednesday.
• The move comes amid over some famous social media influenc...

AIR POLLUTION IS NOT EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS AMERICA, A NEW STUDY REVEALS

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• It is despite the nationwide reduction in pollution levels since the 1980s
• The most polluted census tracts in 2016 remained the same as those of 1981 

According to a new study, the wealthy white Americans still gets c...

TIKTOK FINED BY SOUTH KOREA FOR MISHANDLING CHILDREN’S DATA

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• TikTok has been fined with 186 million Won which is roughly equivalent to $1,55,000 for mishandling children’s data in South Korea.
• The Korean Communications Commission (KCC) in its investigation found that TikTok collects the data o...