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Google Hit With $57 Million GDPR Fine in FranceGoogle Hit With $57 Million GDPR Fine in France
The fine represents the first major penalty for a US technology company under the new European regulations.
Dark Reading Staff
January 21, 2019
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France's data privacy agency on Monday slapped a 50 million euro fine on Google for not fully disclosing how the company gathers and uses the personal information of its users.
The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique (CNI) said Google also did not secure the proper consent from users to provide them with personalized ads. The approximately $57 million penalty under Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was the first massive fine under the new privacy law on a US tech company.
Google said it's "studying the decision to determine our next steps," according to a report by The Washington Post. "People expect high standards of transparency and control from us. We’re deeply committed to meeting those expectations and the consent requirements of the GDPR," Google said.
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