Over the past few years, Google has been facing numerous legal battles in Europe. In what seems to be the norm at this point, Google is once again facing challenges from European privacy regulators. This time, Germany is demanding that Google change what they do with the personal data they collect across Google platforms.
On May 12, German regulators said that Google could be fined for violating data protection laws over its practice of combining user data across its various platforms, such as Gmail and YouTube.
This is unsurprising news, given that Germany has been a longtime critic of Google’s policies, and one of the strongest supporters of the proposed changes to the European Union’s Data Privacy Directive. The changes would, among other things, allow for a fine increase to five percent of global annual sales of a company found to be in violation of EU law. For example, Spain can currently impose fines of up to 1 million Euros (about $1.5 million), while the German Data Protection Act caps penalties at 300,000 Euros. There is not yet any existing legal framework to levy European-wide fines.
Germany Puts Pressure on Google to Change Data Sharing Policies
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