France’s highest administrative court has upheld a fine of 50 million euros Google was ordered to pay for not being “sufficiently clear and transparent” with Android users about their data protection options. Google was first fined in January 2019, the first penalty for a U.S. tech giant under new European data privacy rules that took effect in 2018. Google appealed the penalty issued by the French data privacy watchdog to the Council of State, France’s final arbiter in such cases. In sanctioning Google, France’s data watchdog had said Google users were “not sufficiently informed” about what they were agreeing to as the company collected data for targeted advertisements. The Council of State concurred and faulted Google for “particularly intrusive” data collection methods.

Source: The Standard June 22, 2020 08:48 UTC