The Catalan Traffic Service filed 758,659 fines for speeding throughout the country in 2022, justified by an alleged reduction in mortality of between 65% and 80% in areas where there are speed cameras #fines

https://www.instamaps.cat/visor.html?businessid=9c8d5e792c690dc75fbff73a4a384d33&3D=false&embed=1#8/41.607/2.433

CFTC fines Mirror Trading $1.7B for Bitcoin-related forex fraud - The CFTC has brought or resolved ten fraud cases involving digita... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/cftc-fines-mti-1-7b-for-bitcoin-related-forex-fraud #unitedstates #fines #fraud #cftc

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/countering-dangerous-work-amazon

#Management keeps #InjuredWorkers away from doctors to prevent company from looking bad

#Amazon has twice rate of serious injuries of any similar employer, Washington #OSHA citations amount to $81,000. The #fines pale in comparison to company’s #OperatingExpenses, which make it easy for Amazon to pay fines without improving conditions.

Meta May Offer Ad-Free Subscriptions for Instagram and Facebook in the E.U. - The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restr... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/technology/meta-instagram-facebook-ads-europe.html #generaldataprotectionregulation(gdpr) #regulationandderegulationofindustry #computersandtheinternet #mobileapplications #fines(penalties) #instantmessaging #metaplatformsinc #europeanunion #instagraminc #socialmedia #facebookinc

Deceptive
Marketing, discount lies
Overtaken by truth
Dell fined for the deceit
Regretful

#dell #deceptivemarketing #truth #fines #cinquain #poetry

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/dell-fined-6-5m-after-admitting-it-made-overpriced-monitors-look-discounted/

@JuliusGoat *nodds in agreement*

One can cleary see this because #fines as a #punishment make certain actions only illegal for #poor people.

For example: Illegally parking somewhere despite signage banning it is seen as a "business expense" by rich people instead, as it's cheaper than pay for a fixed parking spot in a garage...

A while ago on the #OrangeSite I read a comment by someone claiming that #GDPR #fines for using #GoogleFonts were unconscionable because browsers are #UserAgents and companies shouldn't be fined for what they do.

This is of course incredulous victim blaming, but it does bump up against an uncomfortable fact: the term "user agent" as applied to browsers is at best useful fiction.

A real user agent would not have a mechanism to load arbitrary untrusted code into itself or contact third parties.

The #FTC’s demands of #OpenAI are the first indication of how it intends to enforce those warnings. If the FTC finds that a company violates #ConsumerProtectionLaws, it can levy #fines or put a business under a #ConsentDecree, which can dictate how the company handles data. The FTC has emerged as the federal government’s top #SiliconValley cop, bringing large fines against #Meta, #Amazon & #Twitter for alleged violations of consumer protection laws.

#ChatGPT #AI

#GDPR fines hit €1.5 billion in H1 2023. Companies had to pay over €1.5 billion in GDPR #fines through the first half of 2023. On May 25th, GDPR celebrated its 5th anniversary. Throughout this time, businesses received 1679 fines combining to a sum of nearly €4 billion.

The data is based on GDPR Enforcement Tracker statistics. CMS — International Law Firm tracked all of the numbers provided on the website. Not all penalties are made public.

https://atlasvpn.com/blog/gdpr-fines-hit-15-billion-in-h1-2023

Fines - do you think they should be based on income? For example, should a millionaire face the same fine for speeding as a minimum wage earner? Or should it be based on a percentage of income in order to have a more equal impact? The way fines are now, there is no incentive for the wealthy to follow the rules or laws. Lower income earners are more adversely influenced impacted. #fines #laws if you want to boost for more responses, that would be cool too.

China Hits Ant Group with $985 Million Fine - After nearly three years of regulatory scrutiny, the fine is seen as a sign that Beijing ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/business/alibaba-ant-group-fine.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #bankingandfinancialinstitutions #antfinancialservicesgroup #initialpublicofferings #alibabagroupholdingltd #peoplesbankofchina #fines(penalties) #majack #china

I really don't understand this. This article mentions in passing that Asda was fined £30,000 twice for failing to respond to information requests and for being unable to explain how being taken over affected its fuel pricing policy. In the same paragraph it mentions that Asda is acquiring a fuel business for £2.27bn.

Asda has enough money to be able to make acquisitions of businesses that are not its core business costing in the billions. A fine in the tens of thousands is literally not even noticeable to them. What is the point? I accept the CMA may not have power to impose a greater fine (I don't know), but what's the point in a regulator that either cannot or will not impose fines that actually hurt their targets?

It happens all over the place, companies being handed fines that aren't even negligible, they're just not actually noticeable. Nobody will follow the rules if it costs substantially less to break them than it does to follow them.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/03/watchdog-competition-fuel-price-monitor-uk-prices-cma

#asda #cma #fines #corporations

Former NYSE Broker to Pay $54M to Settle CFTC Crypto Fraud Charges - Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty in 2021 to charges of defrauding around 150 investors for... - https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/06/28/former-nyse-broker-to-pay-54m-to-settle-cftc-crypto-fraud-charges/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #regulations #courtcases #policy #fraud #fines #news #cftc #us

IMO people's involvement in the #abuse of (other) #animals should be #punished with lengthy #incarceration periods AND high #fines.
#AnimalAbuse #torture #monkeys

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/Iot1dIWVS5/hunting-the-monkey-torturers

@EmilyGB2023 that would actually work.

For example, Customs #TaxFraud in the sense of importing cigarettes without properly declaring and paying taxes on them, carries a penalty of 400% the amount of tax owed + the tax owed and the cigarettes get confiscated by customs in #Germany...

Also #GDPR #fines are way too low and should be at least 100% the global revenue of a platform!

Mmmm.... Can we do that here, too please?

#fines #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-businessman-hit-with-121000-speeding-fine

#DollarGeneral Investors Defy Board By Approving #Safety #Audit After US #Fines
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/dollar-general-investors-approve-safety-review-following-government-fines#xj4y7vzkg

Amazon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Children’s Privacy Charges - Regulators said the tech giant kept children’s Alexa voice recordings “forever,” violatin... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/technology/amazon-25-million-childrens-privacy.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #childrensonlineprivacyprotectionact #computersandtheinternet #federaltradecommission #fines(penalties) #amazon.cominc #epicgames #privacy

Global News BC: WildSafe BC reminds public not to get too close to deer, fawns https://globalnews.ca/news/9728901/wildsafe-bc-public-reminder-deer-fawns/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #Conservation #Environment #Province #Wildsafe #Animals #Injury #Fawns #Fines #Deer #Wild

The GDPR is five years old
But Meta has done what it's been told
It has amassed fines
Each from different mines
And now holds more than half, we are told.

#gdpr #eu #fines #dataprivacy #limerick #poetry

http://thenextweb.com/news/gdpr-turns-five-half-the-fines-have-gone-to-meta-facebook