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LinkedIn fined €310 million for GDPR breaches
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has hit LinkedIn with a €310 million fine after ruling it misused personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted advertising. The ruling follows a complaint submitted to the French data protection authority in 2018 by privacy non-profit La Quadrature Du Net, and later referred to the DPC as the lead supervisory authority for LinkedIn. The…
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Lyft fined $2.1 million for misleading ads about how much drivers could make
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Friday that rideshare company Lyft has agreed to pay $2.1 million as part of a proposed settlement that requires it to change how it advertises driver pay. The company routinely advertised that drivers could make “specific hourly amounts” — in one instance, claiming earnings of “up to $33” per hour for driving in Atlanta…
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These tech firms downplayed the impact of the SolarWinds hack – now they’ve been fined by the SEC
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four major tech firms with failing to tell the truth about their exposure to the 2020 SolarWinds hack. Unisys, Avaya Holdings, Check Point Software, and Mimecast have agreed to pay civil penalties of $4 million, $1 million, $995,000, and $990,000 respectively. “As today’s enforcement actions reflect, while public companies may become…
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UK nuclear site Sellafield fined $440,000 for cybersecurity shortfalls
Image: Sellafield nuclear power station and reprocessing plant (Steve_Allen) Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive nuclear information at risk over four years, from 2019 to 2023. According to the ONR announcement, Sellafield failed to follow its own approved cybersecurity protocols…
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Uber fined $325 million for moving driver data from Europe to US
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, AP) has imposed a fine of €290,000,000 ($325 million) on Uber Technologies Inc. and Uber B.V. over GDPR violations. The authority accuses Uber of transferring personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to servers in the United States without adequate safeguards, as defined by Chapter V of the General Data Protection Regulation.…
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