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BREAKING: CNIL fines Google € 50 Mio based on noyb complaint

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Jun 21, 2019 Source noyb.eu

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Key Info The French data protection authority (CNIL) just has announced that it has imposed a record fine of € 50 million on Google for violating the GDPR today (Link) The penalty is based on two complaints by noyb.eu and the French NGO ‘La Quadrature du Net’ based on ‘forced consent’ on May 25, 2018 (More Information on the original complaints) Fine of € 50 million is the highest fine for privacy violations so far (the maximum fine under GDPR based on 4% of the turnover of Google would be € 3.7 billion) Google moves its European operations to Ireland tomorrow (Jan 22, 2019) and will then be regulated by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner as the ‘lead authority’. Download Press Release PDF First Statement by noyb.eu Max Schrems, Chairman of noyb: “We are very pleased that for the first time a European data protection authority is using the possibilities of GDPR to punish clear violations of the law. Following the introduction of GDPR, we have found that large corporations such as G

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