Topic: financial penalties
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France Slaps Unemployment Agency with €5M Data Breach Fine
France's data protection authority fined the national unemployment agency €5 million for a major cybersecurity breach that compromised the personal data of an estimated 43 million individuals. The breach was executed through social engineering, where hackers manipulated employees to gain access, ...
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Apple Opens Brazil to Third-Party App Stores
Apple will allow third-party app stores and external payment systems on iPhones in Brazil starting next year, following a legal settlement with the country's antitrust authority. The company must implement these changes within 105 days or face significant fines, and any user warnings about third-...
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Frank founder gets 7 years for $175M JPMorgan Chase fraud
Charlie Javice, founder of Frank, was sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase into acquiring her company for $175 million based on false user data. She misrepresented Frank's user base by claiming over four million customers, while the actual number was only around 300,00...
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EU probes xAI over Grok's deepfake porn scandal
The EU has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk's xAI, alleging its Grok chatbot was used to generate and spread non-consensual deepfake pornography, including potential child sexual abuse material. The probe, under the Digital Services Act, will examine whether xAI failed to implement ...
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Microsoft Dodges EU Probe by Unbundling Teams from Office
Microsoft has agreed to separate Teams from its Office and Microsoft 365 suites to avoid an EU antitrust investigation, offering versions without Teams at a lower price and improving interoperability with rivals. The decision resolves a multi-year probe initiated after a complaint from Slack, whi...
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Anthropic Settles AI Copyright Lawsuit With Authors
Anthropic has confidentially settled a class action lawsuit with authors over the use of copyrighted books to train its AI models, ending a legal battle that raised questions about fair use and intellectual property. The lawsuit, Bartz v. Anthropic, centered on whether using books for AI training...
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