BT has been fined £17.5m for a significant failure in its emergency call handling service, which resulted in thousands of 999 calls not being connected. The network fault occurred on June 25 last year and lasted for over 10 hours, causing 14,000 emergency calls to fail. An investigation by Ofcom, the regulator overseeing the 999 …
A Moscow court ordered Google on Thursday to pay a fine of 3 million rubles (generally $41,000) for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users on servers in Russia, a move that is essential for the public authority's longstanding work to fix its hold on online action. The fine is the first given …
An Australian activewear firm has been fined £2.6m (5m Australian dollars) for claiming its apparel "eliminated" and halted the spread of Covid. Lorna Jane had advertised that its apparel utilized "a groundbreaking technology" called LJ Shield to forestall the "transferal of all pathogens". Be that as it may, in a decision, an adjudicator said the …
French authorities fined Google €220 million (£189 million) for misusing its advertising dominance. According to France's competition commission, Google has been promoting its own online ad services at the expense of competitors. Google Ad Manager, the company's ad management software for major publications, gave Google AdX, the company's own online ad marketplace. Google said that …
