Editing Google (section)

===== France =====
On January 21, 2019, French data regulator [[CNIL]] imposed a record €50 million fine on Google for breaching the European Union's [[General Data Protection Regulation]]. The judgment claimed Google had failed to sufficiently inform users of its methods for collecting data to personalize advertising. Google issued a statement saying it was "deeply committed" to transparency and was "studying the decision" before determining its response.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=Chris |date=January 21, 2019 |title=Google hit with £44m GDPR fine |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46944696 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121231240/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46944696 |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |access-date=January 22, 2019 |website=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>

On January 6, 2022, France's data privacy regulatory body [[CNIL]] fined Alphabet's Google 150 million euros (US$169 million) for not allowing its Internet users an easy refusal of [[HTTP cookie|Cookies]] along with Facebook.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rosemain |first=Mathieu |date=January 6, 2022 |title=Google hit with 150 mln euro French fine for cookie breaches |language=en |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-imposes-fines-facebook-ireland-google-2022-01-06/ |access-date=January 6, 2022}}</ref>

On March 20, 2024, Google was fined approximately $270 million by French regulators for using content from news outlets in France without proper disclosure to train its AI, Bard, now renamed Gemini, violating a previous commitment to negotiate content use transparently and fairly.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Squire |first=Paul |title=Google just got hit with a hefty fine, in part over how it trained its AI |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/google-fined-270-million-trained-ai-news-outlets-france-2024-3 |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref>