French officials have announced that Google and Facebook have ordered a fine of approximately JPY 27 billion in Japanese yen, saying it made it difficult to refuse to use website browsing history.
The French government's data protection officials said on the 6th that Google and Facebook are complicating the procedure for storing the site's browsing history data, called "cookies", so that viewers are less likely to be denied access. Announced that it has decided to impose a fine.
The fine is that it ordered Google to pay 150 million euros and Meta, which changed its name from Facebook, 60 million euros, totaling about 27 billion yen in Japanese yen.
In Europe, there are a series of movements to strictly regulate major American IT companies, which have a dominant influence on the Internet business, from the viewpoint of competition law and personal information protection.
On the 5th, German government officials revealed that they are investigating Google for any acts that violate competition law, and last month Italian authorities fined Amazon about 147 billion yen. doing.
The EU-European Union aims to foster industries that can compete with huge American and Chinese companies in the digital field such as big data and semiconductors for security purposes, and there is a movement to restrain such foreign companies. It looks like it will continue.