Google condemned by France fined € 150,000 - Le Parisien

The penalty fell. And that is heavier than the CNIL (National Commission on Informatics and Liberties) can bludgeon to Google. The agency responsible for protecting individual liberties in the IT field announced on Wednesday that penalizes the maximum fine of € 150,000 U.S. Google. Giant net still refuses to conform to French law the policy of privacy on the Internet.

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On January 3, the CNIL gave the penalty because it believes that “the confidentiality rules implemented since 1 March 2012 are not in accordance with the Data Protection Act.”

This sanction is accompanied by the obligation to publish “a statement on the decision on the home page of Google.fr within 8 days of notification” of that decision, and for 48 hours.

litigation regarding the privacy policy of Google, which merged in March 2012 sixty usage rules into one, bringing together the information previously separate services, such as Gmail or Google+ community network .

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The CNIL had asked Google to indicate the purpose of the personal data it collects when someone uses their services or surfs on its search engine and it defines a shelf life of such data.

Google collects data such as phone numbers, geographic location, centers interest, but also the history of pages visited or the most popular content by users.

The CNIL also asked the group to inform and request their prior consent before users install in their terminals “cookies”, these cookies following files that the user to track and enable ad targeting.

In September 2013, the CNIL found that Google had “not made the requested changes” .

Spanish CNIL calls … € 900,000

The National Commission on Informatics and Liberties is not the only one in Google its sights: its new privacy rules were attacked with one voice by the end of 2012, 27 European data protection authorities, who all ordered to comply with the European Data Protection Directive

Six of them – France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands – have gone further in April and are “taken action”, each according to the procedures in force in their countries. Thus, the Spanish Internet watchdog has ordered Google on December 19 to pay a fine of € 900,000 for “serious violations” of privacy.