9 Tech Companies Who Paid Biggest Fines In History


#6 Google

 Fined - $500 Million, and 22 million

Google agreed to pay $500 million for displaying advertisements from Canadian online pharmacies. The online pharmacies in question targeted Americans with the sole purpose of coercing them to buy presciption drugs without a prescription. The $500 million fine was derived from the total amount Google made from selling these ad spots and the amount the Canadian pharmacies made selling to Americans.

In 2012, The Wall Street Journal investigated claims that Google had bypassed the security settings for Apple's Safari browser, which violated an agreement it had in place with the Federal Trade Commission from the previous year. The FTC said that for a number of months from 2011 and 2012, Google used an ad tracking cookie it placed on the devices of Safari users who clicked on sites in Google's advertising network. Google was slapped with a $22.5 million fine, that year, Google made close to $40 billion dollars.

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