Here’s how much Google paid in fines over the years and why

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Google quietly removed the “Don’t be evil” motto from its corporate code of conduct in 2018, and the Android creator was also getting slapped with eye-watering fines during this period. Those two facts probably aren’t related, but the tech giant has racked up sanctions running into the billions of dollars over the last decade, to the point where it can be hard to keep count. We decided to tally them up, so here are the major fines Google has paid over the last ten years and the reasons behind them.

Ten years seems a reasonable window to consider, but it isn’t completely arbitrary. Google hadn’t been caught out so significantly before that, and when it was, the reparations were relatively small, at least compared to the ones you’ll see below.




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