Avast Blog_Security News : Google fined $57M under GDPR

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Avast shares us their news on the new European stricter GDPR standards Google's fine in French courts.Below are excerpts from the Avast Security News Team. Read on below.

New European standards go harder on data collectors to protect user privacy.

The Commissione nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) is an independent French committee dedicated to upholding its country’s commitment to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new standard of EU consumer privacy protection which went into effect last year.

The new regulations call for more transparency from data collectors in terms of how they use the data they collect, as well as clear consent from users, allowing their data to be used in such a way. The CNIL fined Google in French courts earlier today to pay 50 million euros ($57M) for not properly sharing information on how it collects user data.

The GDPR standards are more strict than the previous set, and for the most part, triggered a thick forest of new digital consent forms a user must click before trying a new service, website, or app. But while the new rules caused some companies to adjust how they do business, and others to change how they communicate with customers, the titans of the internet — companies like Google — did not make too many changes, and some experts were wondering when and how the new GDPR rules would hit them....

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