Google fined £44m for GDPR breach

Google has failed to provide transparent and easily accessible information on its data consent policies the French data watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) found.

CNIL has imposed a £44 million fine following the results of an inquiry into GDPR compliance complaints put forward by French privacy rights organisations None Of Your Business and La Quadrature du Net.

Google failed to satisfactorily inform users about how their data is collected and used in serving advertisements and marketing messages, CNIL announced earlier this week.

The agency stated that Google failed to properly obtain user consent for the purpose of using their data to serve personalised advertising.

CNIL confirmed the fine in a statement: “The CNIL’s restricted committee imposed…