• BGR, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 7:23 PM

Google was fined by French regulators for violating privacy laws in France. The online giant has to pony up a mere $204,000, for merging various privacy policies into one blanket policy, which is not enough for France’s Data Protection Act. "On 1 March 2012, Google decided to merge into one single policy the different privacy policies applicable to about sixty of its services, including Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, Picasa, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Maps, etc. Nearly all Internet users in France are impacted by this decision due to the number of services concerned," explained the government agency in a press release. 

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