Google hit with $57 million GDPR fine, the first for a US tech company

Google has kicked off 2019 by getting hit with yet another multimillion-dollar fine from a European regulator.Stemming from an investigation that began in May -- the day after Europe's strict new data privacy rules known as GDPR went into effect -- France's data protection authority has announced a $57 million fine against Google in the first such GDPR penalty levied against a US technology company. In a statement explaining the action, the French agency known as the CNIL noted that the fine is