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Google fails to overturn EUR100 million French fine for violating cookie rules

By Matthew Newman
  • 28 Jan 2022 12:38
  • 28 Jan 2022 12:38
Google has failed to overturn a 100-million euro fine ($112 million) for violating France's privacy rules on cookies following an appeal at the country's highest administrative court.
“The appeal of Google LLC and Google Ireland Ltd is rejected," the State Council said in its decision, directed at the US parent

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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