Security News > 2022 > January > France hits Facebook and Google with $210 million in fines
France's National Commission on Informatics and Liberty, the country's data privacy and protection body, has announced a 60 million euro sanction against Facebook and a 150 million euro penalty against Google.
As a result, today CNIL announced an administrative fine of 60 million Euros against Facebook Ireland Ltd. and an additional 100,000 Euros per day of delay of compliance, starting from March 2022.
The same deadline and delay penalties were announced for Google, the 150 million Euro fine being split between Google LLC and Google Ireland Ltd., 90 million Euros and 60 million Euros respectively.
In November last year, the Italian competition authority hit Google with a fine of 10 million Euros for aggressive data collection by default.
The Italian investigators found that Google was activating user options for the acceptance to collect, transfer and use their data for commercial purposes by default.
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