France fined Google 100 thousand euros

France became the fourth country to impose certain sanctions for the Google Street View service. This time, the French National Informatics and Freedoms Commission (CNIL) filed a fine of 100,000 euros for an American company for illegal collection of personal data.



All claims are related to the filming of people who did not give their consent, and the subsequent posting of pictures on the Internet violated their rights altogether. Many Parisians were just outraged by this. Also, according to the commission, Google benefited from these photos, so a fine was set on a record amount for CNIL.

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In addition, according to the same organization, the largest search engine collected data through unprotected Wi-Fi networks, although the giant had previously announced that it would refuse such cases.



This is not the first case of Street View grievances. For example, one married couple sued a whole dollar from Google for traveling through the territory of the claimant’s house. Previously, more than 240 thousand applications of German residents, who did not want to see their houses on maps, were processed. Google did not bother and just "blurred" them.