Company has been fined £16,500 for breach of safety regulations A discount store company has been fined £16,500 for selling children's toys containing toxins 70 times the legal safe level. 99p Stores in Loughborough was ...
Tags: Toys, children's toys, high levels of phthalates, containing toxins
Starting this month, Canada Revenue Agency is sending out 33,000 letters to help Canadian taxpayers (as they put it) "better understand their tax obligations and to encourage them to correct any inaccuracies in their past income tax and ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
In 2009, Mitsubishi Electric contacted one of its dealers, Mannix Electrical in South Australia, telling the reseller it was discounting too much – $200 – on a 7.1-kilowatt air conditioner. This model generally retailed for ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric
High flying Apple Australia, the company that tried to sell a 3G tablet with a 4G name, has been brought down a notch today, having been forced to make court enforceable undertakings to the ACCC that it will improve its consumer practices ...
Tags: Apple Australia, Consumer Law, ACCC
Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of faulty breast implant maker Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) has been sentenced to four years in jail after a French court found him guilty of fraud-the maximum sentence for that charge. Mas was also fined ...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has prosecuted a GP surgery manager for unlawfully accessing the medical records of almost 2,000 patients registered with the practice. 37-year-old Steven Tennison was employed by the College ...
Tags: Patient Data, medical records, GP Surgery
A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service ...
Tags: Ddos Attack, Fined
Four foreign journalists were honored with Press Freedom Awards Tuesday evening recognizing their work in the face of severe reprisals, including physical threats and imprisonment. The Committee to Protect Journalists' 2013 International ...
On Nov. 26, 2013, Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. entered into a plea agreement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) agreeing to pay a fine of $120 million based on charges that it violated U.S. anti-trust laws in connection with ...
Tags: Toyo Tire&Rubber, Parts Plea Deal, Fined
Cambridgeshire County Council has selected Ipswitch File Transfer's MOVEit solution to securely transfer its data and manage information across 100 locations. The council transfers data across a shared network of five districts, 69 ...
Tags: Cambridgeshire, county, council, Ipswitch, MOVEit, solution, transfer
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned organisations that even temporary workers need data protection training in order to properly prevent against a breach. Its warning comes following four data breaches at the Great ...
A manufacturer of glass coverings for Apple is drawing accusations of worker exploitation from Hong Kong labour groups concerned with several employee suicides at its factory in China. Hong Kong-based Biel Crystal Manufactory Limited is a ...
Tags: Chinese, Apple, supplier, criticism, employee, suicide
A look back through our archives sees that DuPont, Dr Pepper, Post Holdings and Ralcorp Holdings, Kraft Foods and Dow Chemical Company have all had issues to address. General Mills is working to undo the impact of poor waste disposal more ...
Tags: Changing, environmental, issue, food, firm
Google is paying $17 million to 37 states and the District of Columbia to make amends for the Internet search leader's snooping on millions of people using Safari Web browsers in 2011 and 2012. The settlement announced Monday stems from a ...
Tags: Google, $17 million, Safari Web
It is reported that the nickel miner Vale, has suspended operations in New Caledonia due to a effluent pipe damage. The effluent pipe leads through a lagoon of a World Heritage site and it caused Vale to half its production at its five ...