May 23, 2022 Clearview AI face-matching service fined a lot less than expected The fine has finally gone through... but it's less than 45% of what was originally proposed. Naked Security
March 21, 2022 Web vendor CafePress fined $500,000 for giving cybersecurity a low value Just because you're the victim of a cybercrime doesn't let you off your cybersecurity obligations Naked Security
March 06, 2020 Cathay Pacific fined over crooks slurping its database for over 4 years The ICO found a "catalog of errors," including backups without passwords, unpatched servers, no-longer-supported OSes and feeble anti-virus. Naked Security
September 04, 2019 YouTube reportedly to be fined up to $200m over COPPA investigation It's a gnat bite, critics say: The FTC's reported fine would be worth about two to three months of YouTube ad revenue. Naked Security
July 25, 2019 Facebook gets its wrist slapped $5b for fumbling our data, confirms FTC The FTC initially wanted a fine worth tens of billions, plus potential jail time for execs. Naked Security
July 11, 2019 GDPR superpowers lead to whopper ICO fines for BA, Marriott The ICO isn't pulling its punches: The penalty for BA's data breach is about 367 times higher than the previous record-setting fine. Naked Security
July 04, 2019 TikTok investigated (again) over how it handles children’s data and safety It's already gotten hit with the biggest-ever US child privacy fine, and now it might be facing a fine for GDPR violations. Naked Security
July 02, 2019 Dating app Jack’d fined $240K for leaving private photos up for a year The company behind the gay dating app left users' private photos online for a year in spite of knowing about the security bugs. Naked Security
December 11, 2018 Facebook fined $11m for misleading users about how data will be used They said Facebook emphasizes the service being free, not that it's making big bucks off users' data. They ordered the company to apologize. Naked Security
