The Dutch Data Protection Authority said this week that it has fined MLU BV, the Netherlands-based company behind the European version of the taxi app Yango, €100 million for unlawfully transferring personal data from Norway and Finland to Russia.
The Australian Federal Court case against Coles Supermarkets Australia was, on paper, about supermarket shelf pricing. In practice, it became something larger and more uncomfortable for corporate compliance teams. Because once a company trains consumers to trust a label, a slogan, or a pricing program, the legal question is no longer just what the numbers technically say. It becomes whether the overall impression being created can survive scrutiny.
The Federal Trade Commission has announced a $35 million settlement with Shutterstock, accusing the online licensing platform of quietly locking consumers into recurring charges while making it unnecessarily difficult to cancel subscriptions.
The fine that caught people's attention $78 million (PLN 339 million), split between an agricultural machinery company and the executives who ran it) wasn't the largest UOKiK imposed last year. It wasn't even close. But it was, in its way, the most instructive. Because the executives didn't argue they'd ordered the conduct. They argued they hadn't known about it. The court wasn't moved.
Federal authorities have secured one of the largest False Claims Act settlements tied to customs duty evasion after a group of California aluminum companies agreed to pay $549.5 million to resolve allegations they improperly avoided tariffs on imports from China for years by disguising aluminum extrusions as ordinary shipping pallets.
Italy’s competition authority has started investigating companies tied to the Glovo group and Deliveroo Italy, raising questions about whether the food delivery firms’ public messaging around ethics and social responsibility matched conditions experienced by riders on the ground.
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets has fined PostNL €6.923 million after the company failed to meet the country’s statutory requirements for timely mail delivery during 2023. According to ACM, only 89.48 percent of qualifying letterbox mail with a five-day delivery obligation arrived on time that year, well below the legal threshold of 95 percent.