Emmanuelle Trecolle reports:
France’s data protection watchdog on Wednesday fined Google 150,000 euros ($205,000) — the maximum possible — for failing to comply with its privacy guidelines for personal data.
The fine, though tiny for a group that made $15 billion in one quarter last year, is the regulator’s biggest ever and follows in the wake of other European nations cracking down on Google’s increasingly controversial privacy polices.
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Okay, so they fined them. But how does that bring them into compliance with French law? What’s next if Google doesn’t comply with the changes CNIL requested?