{"id":32664,"date":"2022-01-18T02:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32664"},"modified":"2022-01-18T02:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T02:14:48","slug":"amazon-and-whatsapp-saw-biggest-fines-in-eu-last-year-over-data-rules-violations-as-gdpr-takes-toll-on-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32664","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and WhatsApp saw biggest fines in EU last year over data rules violations as GDPR takes toll on Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostEuropean Union data protection fines targeting Amazon.com Inc and Meta Platforms Inc\u2019s WhatsApp helped push penalties to record levels last year, in a sign that the bloc\u2019s tough privacy rules are starting to bite.Luxembourg\u2019s data protection authority last year slapped Amazon with its biggest fine since the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation took effect almost four years ago. The US online retailer is challenging the 746 million-euro ($851 million) penalty. The Irish watchdog followed with\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3163759\/amazon-and-whatsapp-saw-biggest-fines-eu-last-year-over-data-rules?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostEuropean Union data protection fines targeting Amazon.com Inc and Meta Platforms Inc\u2019s WhatsApp helped push penalties to record levels last year, in a sign&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":32665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}