The National Data Protection Authority of France („CNIL”) announced yesterday, 21 January 2019, that it has imposed a fine of 50 million euros against Google for violating the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation („GDPR”). This is the first fine applied to Google for non-compliance with the GDPR provisions.
In the shadow of the highly publicized ordinance on “The tax on banks’ greed” (officially the tax on the assets of banking institutions according to Emergency Ordinance No. 114/2018 regarding the establishment of measures in the field of public investments and fiscal-budgetary measures, on amending an supplementing certain acts and the extension of some deadlines), the end of 2018 brought another surprise for the banking system, partly foreseen but with the hope that it would eventually not happen, or at
