A Google spokesman has announced, a few days after the French data protection authority
CNIL imposed a
record fine of 50 million euros for a breach of the GDPR, that the company will appeal the decision. Google’s decision now forces the Paris State Council, the supreme French administrative court, to decide whether the punishment against the company is lawful.
The fine of EUR 50 million is the first major penalty imposed since the introduction of the GDPR in May 2018. Since the penalty is based on the total worldwide turnover of a company, a maximum penalty of 3.7 billion euros would have been possible in the case of Google.
Lack of information from users
The penalty was imposed because Google did not „clearly and comprehensibly“ inform users about the use of their personal data for advertising purposes, even from the point of view of the CNIL’s data...
