The CNIL, the guardian of the digital privacy of the French, imposed fines of respectively 100 and 35 million euros in fines on Google and Amazon for non-compliance with the legislation on cookies (advertising trackers), a- she announced Thursday.
#Sanction 🔴ℹ The CNIL sanctions Google up to 100 million euros (👉https: //t.co/7MQU3iYE5G) and Amazon (👉https: //t.co/CL94rrvuhG) up to 35 million euros for violating French legislation on cookies.
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- CNIL (@CNIL) December 10, 2020
The CNIL (National Commission for Computing and Liberties) criticizes in particular Google.fr and Amazon.fr the practice of depositing advertising tracers on the computer of the Internet user "without having given his prior consent" .
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In addition, the information banners displayed when consulting these sites did not contain, at the time of the CNIL checks, "sufficiently clear information for the Internet user to know what these cookies are used for and how. he can refuse them ”, according to the Commission.
A fine of 100,000 euros per day
In addition to the fines, the CNIL "ordered companies to modify their information banner, within 3 months", with a fine of 100,000 euros per day of delay after the expiry of this period.
The breaches noted by the Cnil "undermine the privacy of Internet users in their digital daily life", since they "make it possible to collect a great deal of information on people, without their consent, in order to subsequently be able to offer them advertisements" targeted, according to the CNIL.