[moocowduckquack]

So they are perfectly happy to admit liability and pay up, as long as they aren't forced to publicise that admission to the people that the court case itself was on behalf of.

[p4bl0]

This time, yes, because it's about privacy and the CNIL can't do much more than 150,000€.

But France also asks Google for 1 billion € of unpaid taxes over the last years, and this time I guess they will really try to avoid paying (hopefully they won't be able to, but we'll see).

[RBerenguel]

American billion or European billion? In this case I think the distinction is important (I guess it's the first case... the latter would be... big, very big, hugely, mindbogglingly big)

[neverminder]

Yep, I think that sums it up. The fine is pocket money for Google so surely it's not about that.