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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex fined for failing to provide user data to Russian security …  AIM Group Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex was fined 2 million rubles for not providing the FSB with …  ИА Ореанда-Новости Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia’s Yandex fined for refusing to share user information with …  Reuters Source link

Google has been sanctioned A$60 million (around $40M+) in Australia over Android settings it had applied, dating back around five years, which were found — in a 2021 court ruling — to have mislead consumers about its location data collection. Australia’s Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) instigated proceedings against Google and its Australia subsidiary back in October 2019, going on to take the tech giant to court for making misleading representations to consumers about… Source link

The WNBA levied a $500,000 fine against the New York Liberty for their repeated use of charter flights over the back end of the season, an issue that has been at its boiling point for the past few years. It’s a league-record number that was reduced from $1 million and included the removal of Liberty executive Oliver Weisberg from the league’s executive committee, according to a Sports Illustrated report. The use of charter flights is a competitive advantage since not all franchise owners are… Source link

Tyreek Hill’s pom-pom celebration has cost him. The NFL fined the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver $12,875 on Saturday after he used a cheerleader’s pom-poms to celebrate a touchdown in their wild-card win last week, according to the NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. Hill scored on a 31-yard pass from Patrick Mahomes in the third quarter of Kansas City’s 42-21 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the wild-card round last week. While celebrating in the end zone, Hill grabbed a Chiefs… Source link

Julius Randle told New York Knicks fans to “shut the f*** up,” and now he’ll pay the price. The NBA fined Randle $25,000 for using “profane language during media interviews,” the league announced Saturday. The league called out two instances in which Randle used profane language in an “egregious” manner. The first occurred after practice on Jan. 5. The second came after Randle gave a thumbs down gesture during the team’s Jan. 6 win over the Boston Celtics.  Randle grew frustrated with Knicks… Source link

Google has been fined 207.4 billion won (around $177 million) in South Korea for abusing its dominant market position to stop device manufacturers from using modified versions of Android, Bloomberg reports. Specifically, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) is taking issue with the anti-fragmentation agreements (AFA) Google has manufacturers like Samsung sign, which prevents it from making changes to the operating system. The ruling prohibits Google from forcing manufacturers to sign… Source link

The Google logo displayed on a smartphone with the front pages of several newspapers pictured in the background. Hakan Nural | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Google was fined 500 million euros ($593 million) Tuesday by French competition regulators for failing to comply with an order to negotiate fair deals with news publishers for the use of their content. France’s Competition Authority said Google had breached an April 2020 ruling that ordered the company to negotiate “in good faith”… Source link

PARIS—France’s Competition Authority fined Google $593 million for allegedly violating orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers, raising pressure on the company in a global fight over how and whether tech companies should pay for news. The French regulator said that Google had violated its April 2020 orders that the Alphabet Inc. GOOG 0.76% company must negotiate with publishers for the right to show snippets of their content… Source link