Tech giants Google and Facebook have been fined multi-million dollars by France's data privacy watchdog. The tech giants have been accused of making it difficult for internet users to refuse online trackers or cookies.

Google and Facebook fined for cookie breaches

In France, Google has agreed to pay French publishers for news. Australia wants to force tech giants to pay publishers. Multiple countries are now mulling laws to level the playing field for publishers. Palki Sharma Upadhyay tells you why India must make tech giants pay for news.

Gravitas: Google will now pay for news in France

Google and a French publishers' lobby said on Thursday they had agreed a copyright framework under which the U.S. tech giant will pay news publishers for content online, in a first for Europe.

Google seals content payment deal with French news publishers