{"id":199122,"date":"2025-09-04T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/199122\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:51:12","slug":"french-regulator-issues-huge-google-fine-over-cookie-breaches-risking-trumps-ire-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/199122\/","title":{"rendered":"French regulator issues huge Google fine over cookie breaches, risking Trump\u2019s ire \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Google fine, in particular, risks drawing the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has ramped up pressure on the EU after striking a lopsided trade deal in July. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-question-report-sanction-eu-officials-dsa-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump threatened to impose severe tariffs<\/a> on countries that implement &#8220;discriminatory&#8221; regulations or taxes that target U.S. tech firms.<\/p>\n<p>European Trade Commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-google-antitrust-decision-halted-amid-us-trade-talks-trump-sefcovic-ribera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made an 11th-hour intervention<\/a> to stop the Commission from issuing a penalty against Google over its search advertising practices, amid Trump&#8217;s continuing threats. The intervention came against the wishes of Competition Commissioner Teresa Ribera.<\/p>\n<p>The CNIL&#8217;s move to fine both the American search giant and the Chinese e-commerce firm at the same time could give it cover, should Trump accuse Europe of discriminating against U.S. Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Both decisions were dated Sept. 1, but were announced late Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The CNIL issued two fines against Google: \u20ac200 million against Google LLC and \u20ac125 million against Google Ireland, which serves as the tech giant&#8217;s European headquarters. The watchdog gave Google six months to stop displaying ads between emails in Gmail without users&#8217; consent, and to get &#8220;valid consent&#8221; for advertising cookies from users when they create a Google account, with further fines for every day it delays. Cookies are files stored on a user&#8217;s device that contain data used to identify them and track their online activity.<\/p>\n<p>The fine was particularly high, the CNIL said, because of the &#8220;very high number of people affected,&#8221; Google&#8217;s &#8220;central position in the online advertising market&#8221; and the popularity of Gmail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Google fine, in particular, risks drawing the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump, who has ramped up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":199123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,4315,13313,69,36505,2175,68340,130,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-199122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-competition","10":"tag-data-protection","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-maros-sefcovic","13":"tag-tariffs","14":"tag-teresa-ribera","15":"tag-trade","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115145178076977530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}