France's competition authority fined Google €150m for anti-competitive behaviour and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page. France's competition authority fined Google €150m for anti-competitive behaviour and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page. In September, Google agreed to pay close to €1bn to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago. Google, which is the world's biggest internet search engine, has also faced growing regulatory scrutiny about the content it promotes in search results and ads. In January, France's data protection watchdog had fined Google €50m for breaching European Union online privacy rules.

Source: Irish Independent December 20, 2019 10:18 UTC