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French DPA issues €50m GDPR fine on Google

French DPA issues €50m GDPR fine on Google

The CNIL of France has issued the largest GDPR fine to date, and the first on one of the world’s tech giants.

France to introduce a Digital Tax from January 2019

The government is planning a tax on the ‘GAFA’ to raise €500m

Irish Data Protection Commissioner runs inquiry on Facebook’s latest data breach

The DPC takes action after the company’s latest data breach

BEREC to update Net Neutrality guidelines

The Body of European Regulators published an assessment of how EU Net Neutrality rules have been applied so far

Australian competition authority issues first proposal on regulating digital platforms

The ACCC published a preliminary report of its inquiry on digital platforms, which is not yet complete

Italian competition authority fines Facebook €10m for misleading personal data use

The AGCM labelled the social network’s commercial use of subscribers’ data as “unfair”

EU presents an action plan against disinformation

The European Commission takes action ahead of European and national elections of 2019

European Council pushes back plans for a Digital Tax until March 2019

The ECOFIN ministers met today, and took stock of a new proposal tabled by France and Germany

Spanish Data Protection Act allows political parties to gather user information online

The Senate has passed the law to bring Spain’s data protection framework fully in line with the GDPR

Facebook reaches settlement to pay more than €100m taxes in Italy

The company will pay the country’s Revenue Agency (“Agenzia delle Entrate”) for the period 2010–2016