Here are the biggest fines and penalties assessed for data breaches ... which was the maximum fine allowed under the pre-GDPR Data Protection Act 1998. Concluding two enquiries made into Meta ...

The Czech Republic's data protection authority issued a fine of 351 million Czech koruna (U.S. $15 million) against antivirus software vendor Avast for alleged violations of the General Data ...

The Information Commissioner's Office (the "ICO") has clarified the methods it will use to calculate the fines it will issue ... comply with Article 8 of the UK GDPR, related to processing of personal ...

The widespread adoption of cloud services has introduced cybersecurity challenges and compliance complexities due to various privacy regulations in different jurisdictions. According to Pew Research ...

This gives the GDPR governing body a lot of leeway when it comes to assessing fines for data breaches and non-compliance. [ Related: The biggest data breach fines, penalties, and settlements so far ] ...

A Surfshark report published last November revealed that a third of the most fined social media platforms since the introduction of GDPR in 2018 targeted the mishandling of children’s data. Out of 13 ...

Under the new scale of fines and penalties, OPCs and domestic stock corporations with retained earnings of not more than P100,000 will incur a basic penalty of P5,000 for the late filing of their GIS ...

New scale of fines and penalties Under the new scale of fines and penalties, OPCs and domestic stock corporations with retained earnings of not more than P100,000 will incur a basic penalty of P5,000 ...

THE previous government introduced new and heavier penalties under the Companies Act 2016. Some of these fines may be justified due to the severity of the breach. The Pakatan Harapan govern­ment ...

Specifically, the taxpayer contended that the penalties imposed under sections 6038(b) and 6677 violated the Eighth Amendment’s excessive fines clause. This was an argument that the IRS ...