$210M Fine In AOL Probe
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WASHINGTON (CBS) America Online has agreed to pay a $210 million fine to settle a Justice Department investigation of securities fraud, a department official tells CBS News.
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FTC dishes out $1m penalty A social networking website has agreed to pay a $1m fine to settle with authorities over allegations that it collected, used and disclosed personal details of children under 13.â¦
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America Online, the internet division of Time Warner, will be charged with criminal securities fraud but is likely to avoid prosecution under a settlement
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Time Warner Inc. agreed Wednesday to pay $210 million to settle criminal securities fraud charges brought by the Justice Department against the company&#39;s America Online unit.
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Hoping to trigger a federal investigation, a civil liberties group accused AOL of breaking a promise to protect its subscribers' privacy when the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary recently released millions of Internet search requests &#151; data that touched upon everything from Social Security numbers to murder plots.
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Time Warner Inc. and other  defendants including America Online and Ernst &amp; Young have  agreed to pay &#36;23 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of  defrauding pension and investment funds in Pennsylvania, the  state&#039;s Attorney General said on Thursday.
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A German manufacturer of technology commonly used in personal computers has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $160 million fine for engaging in an international price-fixing conspiracy that drove up computer prices, the Justice
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AOL has settled with the state of Florida after an investigation regarding over 1,000 customer complaints related to the Internet service provider's billing and subscriber practices. AOL previously settled with New York after AOL employees refused customer requests to cancel their accounts.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation&#39;s ban on spam. The highest single fine - for $61,000 - went to a person involved with four spam e
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(InfoWorld) - Three people have sued AOL LLC over the company'sÂ controversial release of member search-engine records, in what their lawyers are billing as the first such lawsuit seeking national class action status. The three AOL members charge the Time Warner Inc. subsidiary with, among other things, privacy violation, false advertising and unjust enrichment. Two unnamed AOL members residing in California, and Kasadore Ramkissoon, who lives in New York, filed their lawsuit on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit seeks monetary relief for all affected AOL members in the U.S. whose search data was disclosed without consent from January 1, 2004 until the present. The plaintiffs also ask the court to instruct AOL not to store or maintain users' Web search records, and to destroy the Web search records it currently has. The lawsuit stems from AOL's decision to post on its research Web site about 20 million search records from about 658,000 of its members, covering the three-month period between March and May. AOL didn't disclose the names of the members, but it grouped each member's records with a unique number. This made it possible to see what each individual searched for. The data included search queries, as well as Web sites the members clicked on to. When the issue became a privacy scandal in August, AOL apologized and pulled the data from the Web site, but by then the data set had been downloaded multiple times and the records remain available online. The records contain sensitive information like credit card, telephone and Social Security numbers, birth dates, full names and addresses. The New York Times tracked down one of the affected members and, with her permission, interviewed and identified her. The law firm Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo represents the plaintiffs. A copy of the complaint is posted on theÂ law firm's Web site. The scandal has had significant repercussions within AOL. Its Chief Technology Officer Maureen Govern resigned and two other employeesÂ were fired. Last week, in an e-mail sent to all employees and obtained by IDG News Service, AOL's Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Miller referred to the incident as "the search data debacle" and announced AOL plans to hire, for the first time ever, a chief privacy officer. In the e-mail, Miller outlined a reorganization of AOL's business structure, which will include a unit solely dedicated to what he termed the "protection" of AOL consumers. Last week, in its latest search engine usage study, Nielsen/NetRatings reported that in August, people in the U.S. ran 18.2 percent fewer queries on AOL's search engine, compared with August 2005. Nielsen/NetRatings didn't venture any explanations for the drop, but industry observers have pointed directly at the search data scandal as the culprit. Among the top five search engine providers, AOL was the only one whose usage share shrunk last month. The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against AOL in August over the search data release. AOL declined to provide comment for this story. Â
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Admits to sending junk mail to 1.2m AOL subscribers A New York man who was snared in federal investigators' sting operation targeting senders of junk email pleaded guilty to spamming 1.2m AOL subscribers.â¦
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A Massachusetts businessman accused of bilking the company out of millions of dollars worth of networking gear faces 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. By the Associated Press.
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Time Warner agrees to pay $210m to settle charges of securities fraud involving America Online.
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TIME WARNER has agreed to pay $US210 million to settle fraud charges against the company&#39;s America Online unit, US law enforcement officials said overnight.
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November 05, 2004 - A government investigation into accounting practices at America Online has prompted Time Warner to set aside $500 million to cover the costs of potential fines.
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Social-networking site Xanga.com Inc. and its operators said yesterday that they would pay a $1 million fine for alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, at a time of heightened parental and government concern about children's safety online.
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Time Warner Inc., the world&#39;s biggest media company, agreed to pay $510 million to resolve US investigations into whether its America Online unit improperly booked advertising sales.