Bank fined $50m for buying drivers' data
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Payout strengthens anti-stalker law A bank which purchased the names and addresses of more than 650,000 people in the US has been ordered to pay a $50m fine. The case was brought by a Florida resident against Fidelity Bank and also included the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.â¦
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British police spent 10,000 pounds (19,000 dollars, 14,000 euros) to catch and prosecute a woman driver for eating an apple while behind the wheel, reports said.
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E-mails and text messages expose details of the Formula One espionage that has rocked motor racing and resulted in a $100 million fine for one of the sportâs top teams.
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Why settle for just emptying an online bank account? Scammers conned both a mortgage firm and a bank to hit an IT director for Â£60,000. UK police are hunting the gang responsible for the scam, and at least nine others like it, that are estimated to have netted ID fraudsters hundreds of thousands of pounds, The Times reports.â¦
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NEW YORK -- Americans lost about $49.3 billion in 2006 to criminals who stole their identities, an 11.5 percent decline that may reflect increased vigilance among consumers and businesses, a study released yesterday shows.
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Motorsport's governing body slaps McLaren with a $100 million fine over the possession of a rival's confidential data
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They can run, and they can hide US network operators who can't locate their customers in the case of an emergency are facing fines of over $2m, having already been given 18-months grace to comply.â¦
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A third of cars could be registered wrongly in government databases, says the National Audit Office.
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A British employment tribunal ordered rock star Sting and his wife Trudie Styler to pay $50,000 in compensation on Tuesday for wrongfully dismissing their former chef.
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Two firms have been fined a total of Â£325,000 after a student was killed while working on tracks.
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Federal regulators imposed a $10 million penalty against an Alabama bank for alleged violations of rules barring money laundering.
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Singapore&#39;s central bank said Thursday it has fined three employees of the government&#39;s secretive investment fund for insider trading involving shares of a Japanese financial company.
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The PIMCO mutual fund group has agreed to pay $50 million to settle fraud charges involving improper rapid dealing in mutual fund shares, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday.
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Bank details relating to investments worth millions of pounds are found near a motorway slip road in Berkshire.
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A Chinese travel agency in Shandong province is fined 150,000 yuan for selling airline tickets too cheaply.
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Keel-hauled An unnamed UK firm has agreed to pay a record fine of Â£250,000 ($498K) for running unlicensed software.â¦
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ChoicePoint has settled with 44 states over its loss of data on 145,000 consumers. The company is also to pay about $500,000 in fines. As part of the agreement, ChoicePoint will put in place better security to protect consumer data.