Biggest GDPR Fine Awarded To Google!
CNIL, the data protection regulator in France has issued a €50 million fine on Google for failure to comply with its GDPR obligations. This makes it the biggest GDPR fine yet that has been issued by the European regulator and a first for one of the tech giants to be found lacking of compliance to the regulations that came into force in May of 2018.
GDPR was brought in as an attempt to rein in the power that giant tech companies held and the threat they posed to our privacy. So this regulation has become the one weapon that restores a human’s right to privacy which brings us to Google’s massive GDPR fine.
Based on a complaint by Max Schrems’ privacy group NOYB and the French group La Quadrature du Net, CNIL investigated the process for setting up a Google account from an Android device. After doing so, they concluded that Google had breached the GDPR in 2 ways:
- Failure to meet transparency and information requirements
- Failure to obtain legal reasons for processing said data