France’s highest administrative court said on Friday that it maintained a fine of 100 million euros against Google. Google was hit with a then-record fine in 2020 for using cookies to track users without their permission, and for failing to provide an easy-to-use way to deny tracking.
Since the European Union’s General Data Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018, EU data protection regulators have been granted unprecedented powers to fines up to 4% of the offending company’s annual global sales. But the fine against Google is based on a different set of rules that govern how online devices are used and comes at a tougher regulatory environment for the global tech giant.
