company risks having to pay millions of euros in fines to European countries.
– By the end of July, all EU data supervision have taken enforcement action against Google, says the head of the French data protection authority CNIL, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin. The UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are planning similar action against the world’s largest search engine, according to the CNIL.
Google must within three months to change its policy on the use of private user data if it will avoid the French fines of up to 150,000 euros (1,2 million).
Also the Spanish Data Protection AEPD said on Thursday that it will fine the IT company as a violation of six of the country’s privacy laws. Five of the violations are considered to be serious, and for each of these there is talk of a fine of between 40,000 and 300,000 euros (300,000 to 2.4 million).
In April made six European countries getting ready to punish Google for failing to disclose its methods for collecting information about users. The process against Google has been led by France. (© NTB)
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