The Commission Nationale De L’Informatique Et Libertes (CNIL) is the data protection watchdog of France and it has recently fined Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for some privacy changes that affected the method of collecting and processing data from individual users across Google+, Gmail as well as YouTube. In a nutshell, this new privacy policy aimed to combine no less than 60 different policies into only one, and it was introduced back in March 2012.

After closely analyzing this new data collection method, CNIL said that it violates the privacy of Google users and it has fined Google with no less than 150,000 EUR, or the equivalent of approximately $205,000. Nevertheless, the United States search engine has announced yesterday that it will appeal against CNIL’s fine. According to Google, the only reason why the company has made these changes was to deliver simpler, more effective and more straightforward services for its customers.
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been fined by the data protection of France a few days ago, and it is all over the news – the institution that deals with data protection services, the Comission Nationale de L’Informatique Et Libertes or simply CNIL, claims that the new privacy policy changes of Google simply does not comply with the French Data Protection Act and that it has to take some measures to protect the privacy and the data of the French users of Google.

The fine is worth of 150,000 Euros or the equivalent of $204,000, and it comes as a direct following of Google’s failure to adjust the privacy policy changes so that they comply with the Act mentioned above. As CNIL claims in a press release, it has ordered Google to publish the decision within several days after the multinational has been informed of the ruling.

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