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ARTICLE · 22 JANUARY 2014

Maximum Administrative Fine Issued By The CNIL Against Google: More To Come?

After almost two years of back and forth with Google, the French CNIL has, similarly to the Spanish Data Protection authority, sanctioned Google with a €150,000 fine, as Google refused to review its integrated platform and to modify its privacy policy as requested by the Working Party 29.

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After almost two years of back and forth with Google, the French CNIL has, similarly to the Spanish Data Protection authority (€900,000 fine), sanctioned Google with a €150,000 fine, as Google refused to review its integrated platform and to modify its privacy policy as requested by the Working Party 29.

In addition to this fine, the CNIL has ordered Google to post a warning on Google's French home page within eight days after the CNIL's notification, and during two days reflecting this condemnation.

Google has decided to appeal the CNIL's condemnation in front of the French Council of State ("Conseil d'Etat"), France's highest administrative jurisdiction, in order to obtain the cancellation or reversal of the decision.

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