Tech Giant fined by France

Tech giant Google has been fined nearly $57 million by French regulators for violating data-privacy rules in Europe, making it the first penalty brought against an American tech company.

The French data-privacy agency known as CNIL, indicated that Google failed to disclose to their users how their personal information is collected the usage of it. Google also did not obtain the consent of of its users properly, the agency said.

Quoting CNIL, “Despite the measures implemented by Google, (documentation and configuration tools), the infringements observed deprive the users of essential guarantees regarding processing operations that can reveal important parts of their private life since they are based on a huge amount of data, a wide variety of services and almost unlimited possible combinations”.

Under the GDPR, EU regulators have the power to find companies as much as 20million Euros, or four percent of their annual turnover, whichever is greater.