PARIS—France on Thursday fined TikTok 5 million euros ($5.4 million) for shortcomings linked to the short video platform’s handling of online tracking known as “cookies”, which the ByteDance-owned company said it had now addressed. French data protection watchdog CNIL said that its investigation only concerned the website tiktok.com and not the service’s much more heavily […]
China’s two-year clampdown on Internet giants seems to have entered a new phase. On Tuesday, China’s market regulator voiced a plan to amend a law on unfair competition. The change would target internet companies found guilty and slap them with fines as high as a 5 percent share of the firm’s annual revenue. But what […]
NTD spoke with Calvary Chapel San Jose’s senior pastor Mike McClure, who said staying open during the pandemic helped save lives and souls. An appeals court on Monday rejected fines for the church of over $200,000 for defying COVID-19 restrictions.
Top Democrats are calling for tighter restrictions on lawmakers trading stocks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there should be tougher fines for violating a law that prohibits members of Congress from insider trading, while others say lawmakers should be banned from trading stocks altogether. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is asking Congress to address the […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Feb. 9 said she supports increasing restrictions on members of Congress trading stocks. “We have to tighten the fines on those who violate the STOCK Act. It’s not sufficient to deter behavior,” Pelosi told reporters in Washington during a press conference. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act […]
The Biden administration has released the new rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that requires 84 million private-sector workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The administration has also announced its rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requiring 17 million health care workers at facilities that receive federal funding to be […]
The Polish government has to pay a 1 million euro (about $1.2 million) penalty every day for maintaining a disciplinary chamber for judges, citing the primacy of EU law over national law, the European Union’s top court ruled on Oct. 27. “As it has not suspended the application of the provisions of national legislation relating, […]
Russia said on Tuesday it is seeking to fine Google more than $200 million after the U.S. tech giant repeatedly failed to remove content deemed illegal by Moscow. Communications regulator Roskomnadzor said Google had failed to pay 32.5 million roubles ($458,100) in penalties levied so far this year and that it would now seek a […]
