The CNIL is the French national board for informatics and freedom, meaning it is an adiministrative authority that is in charge of definding rights of individuals. Apparently CNIL is accusing Google.fr to have crossed the line and they violated privacy of their french useres.

After tax authorities were stepping on Google's toes in France, it's now the CNIL that is accusing Google of violating privacy with no less than 60 of their services. In this context the CNIL charges Google.fr with a 150'000 Euro fine, which is the maximum they can ask for. Meanwhile there are also reasons available why Google has to pay the fine, that is certainly an unwelcomed surprise for the company but still an amount that is not going to hurt the giant.

The CNIL mentioned the following violations:

• Google insufficiently informs their useres and therefore violates French privacy laws.
• Google is violating French law with their cookie policies.
• Google is not taking care the issues mentioned.
• Google is processing information gathered without having the right to do so.

Even if this is not going to change the situation with Google in France, there is at least some additional information surfacing on business practices going at Google, whereas it might be interesting for useres to get an understanding what the search giant is actually doing with the information they're gathering.




Source: Le Comptoir du Hardware