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Google Loses Appeal, Has to Post Notice About Fine on French Home Page

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Google lost a last-minute appeal to French courts on Friday, and was forced to display a huge, 13-point text block on its otherwise sterile Google.fr webpage for 48 hours.

The text within the block – for those who don't speak French and/or are too lazy to Google Translate the page – refers to the €150,000 fine Google will have to pony up for violating French data collection laws.

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