French data privacy regulator imposes €50 million fine against Google for violating GDPR
French data privacy regulator imposes €50 one thousand thousand fine confronting Google for violating GDPR
French republic fined the company for failing to run into transparency requirements
French republic'southward data privacy regulator imposed a €l million fine confronting Mount View search giant Google for violating the European Union'due south (European union) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The fine represents the largest fee imposed on a company for failing to meet GDPR obligations.
Co-ordinate to a January 21st, 2019 media release issued by the Commission nationale de 50'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), Google violated the GDPR's "obligations of transparency and information" past inadequately expanding on the company's data processing purposes, information storage periods and categories of personal data used for advertizing personalization.
"Users are not able to fully empathize the extent of the processing operations carried out by Google," reads an extract from the same January 21st CNIL media release.
French republic as well fined Google for failing to "take a legal basis for ads personalization processing."
"The information on processing operations for the ads personalization is diluted in several documents and does not enable the user to exist enlightened of their extent," reads another excerpt from the same media release.
CNIL added that Google inadequately obtained user consent for ad personalization in a way that was specific or unambiguous.
"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," wrote CNIL.
CNIL noted that Google does attempt to properly inform users nigh the company's data collection procedures, but that the data provided isn't enough for the company to see the Eu'southward GDPR requirements.
"…Taking into account the important place that the operating system Android has on the French market, thousands of French people create, every solar day, a Google account when using their smartphone," said CNIL.
The GDPR — which came into force on May 25th, 2018 — is a comprehensive collection of information protection laws aimed at ensuring companies adequately provide users with transparent information about how personal data will be used.
The Verge reported that Google'southward €50 million fine is the largest GDPR fine to date.
"People expect high standards of transparency and control from us," wrote a Google spokesperson, in an email to MobileSyrup.
"We're securely committed to coming together those expectations and the consent requirements of the GDPR. We're studying the decision to make up one's mind our next steps."
Though unrelated to the GDPR, the EU fined Google approximately $6.68 billion in July 2018 for breaking the EU's antitrust laws through the Android mobile operating system.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said his company would entreatment the EU'south decision.
Source: CNIL Via: The Verge
Source: https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/01/21/google-french-eu-50-million-fine-gdpr-violation/
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