Finalfine · GDPR
CNIL fines Google €50M over Android ad consent
€50M
≈ $54M at the time
CNIL
France · 2019
Status: Final
What happened
France's CNIL issued one of the first major GDPR fines, finding that Google lacked transparency and valid consent for ads personalisation during Android device setup.
How it affected users
Users could not easily understand or control how their data was used across roughly 20 Google services.
Status timeline
Jan 21, 2019
Penalty announced.
Sources
- CNIL decision (English)regulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "CNIL fines Google €50M over Android ad consent," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2019-01-21. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/google-france-cnil-consent-2019/