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> That's why CNIL chose such a big player FWIW, CNIL didn't choose a big player. They're responding to complaints advanced by the two associations mentioned i
by klez 8y ago
> That's why CNIL chose such a big player
FWIW, CNIL didn't choose a big player. They're responding to complaints advanced by the two associations mentioned in TFA, that is La Quadrature du Net and None Of Your Business.
- olivierduval 8y agoYou're right. In fact, they could have choose Google, because they may act by their own without any complaint. But they choose the amount ;-)
- DannyBee 8y agoWhat? Of course they chose. They have received the same complaints about literally thousands of companies, and chose to advance these two first. Regulators (no matter where) always make strategic decisions about who to prosecute and when. That's part of the job. I'm not sure why we are trying to pretend they are robotic automatons who just process complaints exactly as received.
- puzzle 8y agoIn interviews back before GDPR, the CNIL stated that, when the maximum fines allowed weren't enough, they saw the PR embarrassment of making their rulings public, which is not required, an even higher punishment for Google. So they have been making strategic decisions for a while.