- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
Tesco Stores will pay a £129 million (U.S.$161.4M) fine over a 2014 misstatement of the retailer’s profits. The fine, part of a deferred prosecution agreement with the Serious Fraud Office, is a clarion call for all companies to strengthen their internal controls.
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Although British supermarket chain Tesco secured a DPA for its 2014 fraud offence, three of its executives still face a reckoning in court—with an uncertain outcome.
The data protection authority of Lithuania levied a fine of 2.4 million euros (U.S. $2.6 million) against Vinted UAB, an online clothing trading and exchange platform, for alleged violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.
The European Commission informed X, formerly Twitter, that it may be the first company found to be in violation of the European Union’s Digital Services Act in areas “linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency, and data access for researchers.”
