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Google has been fined for not having "legal basis" for processing personal data in France. [Photo: Mirror]
Google has been given a 50 million Euro fine in France over data protection failures, particularly focusing on how it processed personal data for advertising services.
CNIL, the French commission for monitoring abuses of data privacy laws claims that Google has not obtained valid authorization to use people's data. It claims that the information people need to make informed choices is hidden in complex agreements and that is "diluted in several documents and does not enable the user to be aware of their extent".
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