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France’s top administrative court upheld a 50 million-euro fine ($56 million) imposed last year on Alphabet’s Google for breaching European Union online privacy rules. France’s supreme administrative court, the Council of State, on Friday confirmed the CNIL’s reading of the case.
The French regulator CNIL in January last year found the world’s biggest search engine lacked transparency and clarity in the way it informs users about its handling of personal data and failed to properly obtain their consent for personalised ads.
Its decision relied on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the biggest shake-up of data privacy laws in more than two decades, which came into force in 2018.
