Google Forced to Advertise £125,000 Fine on Its French Homepage
Google has been told to inform its French customers that it must pay a £125,000 fine for violating their privacy.
France’s data protection watchdog punished the online advertising giant for the way it tracks and stores users’ personal information.
The fine is just the latest blow for Google in France, after the company was earlier this week hit with a €1billion tax bill from French tax authorities.
Communique: Google has been told to inform French customers it must pay a £125,000 fine for violating their privacy after France’s data watchdog punished the firm over how it tracks and stores personal information
Privacy watchdog CNIL objected to Google’s method of combining data collected on individual users across services such as YouTube, Gmail and social network Google+.
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