subtext: easytiger spreading FUD

First, this is about privacy rights. Second, this is an independent agency. Third, it is actually rumored that other equivalent agencies in the EU will take the same kind of measures.

Yes. The CNIL and the tax service have really nothing to do with each other.

Not to say that Google shouldn't pay taxes like normal businesses do, but this has nothing to do with it.

You seriously don't think there is a political motive behind this and the other French Google issues? That and the grasp the copywrite lobby have on the french government are certainly influences behind creating an atmosphere behind this.

Not to mention the unrealistic and technically infeasible nature of the demands. The french government are a madman loose in the room. On many levels and issues.

Not being a french company I think you mean ;-) guess which companies got raided over the 35 hours law a few years back.