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Cheshire East Council lands £80,000 fine for data breach

The Information Commissioner's Office has slapped an £80,000 fine on Cheshire East Council for a data breach involving the emailing... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Staff

US cybersecurity bill proposes $100k tech firm fines

...not comply with cybersecurity directives from Homeland Security could face a $100,000 fine under new legislation introduced in the US House of Representatives Read more

22 November, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

BYOD is no money-saver, says council's IT chief

...foul of the Information Commissioner for a breach and get a £500,000 fine."However, the council is reaping other benefits from BYOD, such as... Read more

27 April, 2012 by Sade Laja

Google releases full FCC report on Street View scanning

...not broken the law but that the commission would impose a $25,000 fine on the company for "deliberately impeding and delaying" its probe.The... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Edward Moyer

Free Maps costs Google £400K in damages in France

...ruled earlier this week. It also required Google to pay a €15,000 fine for the practice. "We proved the illegality of (Google's) strategy... Read more

2 February, 2012 by Don Reisinger

EDF Greenpeace hack leads to £1.3m fine and jail

...to three years in prison, with two years suspended, plus a €4,000 fine Read more

11 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Facebook faces facial feature scrutiny in Germany

...Johannes Caspar, said Facebook might have to pay a €300,000 (£262,000) fine over the facial-recognition functionality. The feature, which scans users' photos... Read more

4 August, 2011 by David Meyer

ICO fines ACS:Law £1,000 for data breach

...that the £1,000 was "ridiculous". "To issue a £1,000 fine is laughable," said Hanff. "The ICO should have ruled on the... Read more

10 May, 2011

Most data breaches escape privacy watchdog fines

...the DPA in the private sector. He pointed out that the £60,000 fine issued to A4e was only a fraction of the company's... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Nick Heath

Google fined ?100k by French data protection authority

...ICO) in the UK, said it was levying the €100,000 (£87,000) fine because Google had not stopped using the data it had collected... Read more

21 March, 2011 by David Meyer

iPad data breach leads to charges

...maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 (£313,000) fine. Two men have been charged with stealing personal details of iPad... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Chambers to appeal Twitter trial decision

...iamspartacus hashtag, while celebrity Stephen Fry offered to pay Chambers' £1,000 fine Read more

22 November, 2010

Exec faces $1m fine in LCD price-fixing case

...Yang Ho, who received a 14-month jail sentence and a $50,000 fine, and Chu-Hsiang Yang, who received nine months in jail and... Read more

15 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Carbon scheme closes amid datacentre cost concerns

...Thursday, with all companies that register late potentially subject to a £5,000 fine and an additional £500 per working day past the deadline — up... Read more

1 October, 2010 by Jack Clark

Sex-sting target convicted of website attacks

...faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 (£159,000) fine, along with restitution estimated to be more than $100,000, according... Read more

24 September, 2010 by Elinor Mills

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