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It seems like an innocent use of social media, but Daryl Morey drew a fine for it anyway. The NBA fined the Philadelphia 76ers president $50,000 for violating the league’s anti-tampering rule, the league announced Monday. The violation is for a tweet Morey shared on Dec. 20 that he quickly deleted. That post was an “On This Day” anniversary post from Dec. 20, 2019, when Morey was the Houston Rockets general manager. It has a photo of James Harden celebrating that he broke the franchise… Source link

France’s data protection regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL, has fined Google and Amazon a total of €135 million (around $163 million) between them for violating the country’s data protection laws. Google was fined a total of €100 million (around $121 million), while Amazon was fined €35 million (around $42 million). In both cases, CNIL’s complaints were similar. It said that in the past, when users visited either company’s… Source link

Getty Images; Chris Ratcliff | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, issued Google and Amazon with substantial fines on Thursday for breaking rules on online advertising trackers, known as cookies. The watchdog ordered Google to pay 100 million euros ($121 million) and Amazon to pay 35 million euros. The CNIL said both companies had breached Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, with Google… Source link

11:20 09/12/2020 MOSCOW, December 9 (RAPSI) – The Moscow Directorate of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has fined Yandex company 150,000 rubles ($2,000) for distribution of inappropriate abortion advertising, according to a statement of the watchdog. A similar fine has been also imposed on the medical centre On Clinic. According to the FAS, a citizen has complained about the advertisement disseminated in the system Yandex. Direct. A following check conducted by a territorial… Source link

11:20 09/12/2020 MOSCOW, December 9 (RAPSI) – The Moscow Directorate of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has fined Yandex company 150,000 rubles ($2,000) for distribution of inappropriate abortion advertising, according to a statement of the watchdog. A similar fine has been also imposed on the medical centre On Clinic. According to the FAS, a citizen has complained about the advertisement disseminated in the system Yandex. Direct. A following check conducted by a territorial… Source link

In the midst of a COVID-19 crisis, the NFL has disciplined two teams for failing to follow the league’s protocols. The New England Patriots have been fined $350,000, and the New Orleans Saints have been fined $500,000 and stripped of a future seventh-round draft pick for various violations of the protocols, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Sources: The #Patriots were fined $350K for COVID-19 protocol violations stemming from issues in October when Cam Newton & others tested… Source link

The APD announced the fine Tuesday as punishment for Google Belgium’s “serious breach” of the GDPR for refusing to delete search results, known as dereferencing. The fine is the largest ever levied by the APD; the previous high was a fine of €50,000 (U.S. $56,000). The public official had appealed to the APD to force Google Belgium to delete two search results after the internet giant’s subsidiary refused to do so. In response, the APD issued the fine regarding Google Belgium’s… Source link