European regulators have been emboldened since the new GDPR came into force in 2018 and the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), France's data watchdog, is no exception. The regulatory body penalised Google for breaching data protection laws and fined the search engine a painful $56.4 million (£43.2m). Google made it too difficult for users to find understandable information on its data use policies, CNIL said.

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