France’s data protection watchdog Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) has fined Google a record €50 million (U.S. $57 million) for failing to provide users with transparent and understandable information on its data use policies.

It is the first time that CNIL has fined any company under Europe’s tough new data privacy law, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

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