The authority's chief Isabelle de Silva accused the tech giant of 'brutal and unjustified' suspension of advertisers. France's competition authority fined Google £128million (150 million euros) for anti-competitive behaviour and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page. The tech giant has been given two months to work out how it intends to bring its practices into line, it said. In 2017, the EU fined Google £2.1 billion for giving preference to its own shopping services. In January, the French data protection watchdog CNIL fined Google £44million for making it too difficult for users to find information about how it uses their personal data.

Source: Daily Mail December 20, 2019 10:32 UTC