{"id":959606,"date":"2025-09-06T08:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959606"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:42:17","slug":"france-hits-google-with-381-million-fine-for-consumer-protection-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/06\/france-hits-google-with-381-million-fine-for-consumer-protection-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"France hits Google with $381 million fine for consumer protection failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: France&#8217;s data protection authority said on Wednesday it had fined Alphabet&#8217;s Google 325 million euros ($381 million) for improperly displaying ads to Gmail users and using cookies, both without Google account users&#8217; consent.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission Nationale de l&#8217;Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) also gave Google six months to ensure ads are no longer displayed between emails in Gmail users&#8217; inboxes without prior consent, and that users give valid consent to the creation of a Google account for the placement of ad trackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: France&#8217;s data protection authority said on Wednesday it had fined Alphabet&#8217;s Google 325 million euros ($381 million) for improperly displaying ads to Gmail users and using cookies, both without Google account users&#8217; consent. The Commission Nationale de l&#8217;Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) also gave Google six months to ensure ads are no longer displayed between emails in Gmail users&#8217; inboxes without prior consent, and that users give valid consent to the creation of a Google account for the placement of ad trackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}