Big tech fines in 2021

Italy's AGCM found that Amazon tied key seller benefits, such as the Prime badge and better visibility, to using its own logistics service (FBA), disadvantaging rival logistics providers.

Luxembourg's CNPD fined Amazon for processing personal data for behavioural advertising without valid consent. It was the largest GDPR fine at the time and has been under appeal since.

A class-action settlement resolved claims that Facebook's tag-suggestion faceprinting violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. Roughly 1.6 million Illinois users received payouts.

France's competition authority fined Google for failing to negotiate in good faith with news publishers over payment for news snippets under the EU's neighbouring-rights rules.

The DPC found that WhatsApp failed to properly explain to users and non-users how their data was processed and shared with other Meta companies.

France's competition authority found that Google favoured its own ad server and ad exchange in online display advertising, and accepted binding commitments alongside the fine.

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined Google for blocking device makers from using customised (forked) versions of Android.