{"id":17975,"date":"2022-07-12T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/samsung-fined-9-7m-over-false-water-resistance-claims"},"modified":"2022-07-12T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:00:47","slug":"samsung-fined-9-7m-over-false-water-resistance-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/samsung-fined-9-7m-over-false-water-resistance-claims","title":{"rendered":"Samsung fined $9.7m over false water-resistance claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Australia\u2019s competition regulator said on Thursday a court has ordered the local unit of Samsung Electronics to pay a penalty of A$14 million ($9.65 million) over misleading claims about a water-resistance feature in some of its smartphones.\\<br \/>\nSamsung Australia admitted to misleading buyers of some of its \u2018Galaxy\u2019 phones about the water-resistance level, the Australian Competition &amp; Consumer Commission said. The regulator had first sued the company in July 2019.<br \/>\nThe regulator said that between March 2016 and October 2018, the company ran in-store and social media advertisements that claimed the phones could be used in pools or seawater.<br \/>\nThe ACCC, however, received hundreds of complaints from users saying the smartphones did not function properly or even stopped working entirely after being exposed to water. The claims \u201cpromoted an important selling point for these Galaxy phones.<br \/>\nMany consumers who purchased a Galaxy phone may have been exposed to the misleading ads before they made their decision to purchase a new phone,\u201d said ACCC Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb. Samsung did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. Australia\u2019s competition regulator said on Thursday a court has ordered the local unit of Samsung Electronics to pay a penalty of A$14 million ($9.65 million) over misleading claims about a water-resistance feature in some of its smartphones.\\ Samsung Australia admitted to misleading buyers of some of its \u2018Galaxy\u2019 phones about the water-resistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[233,245,241,1748],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-mauritius","tag-samsung"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Samsung fined $9.7m over false water-resistance claims - 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