Google and Amazon: Lack of data protection? Million fines imposed

Amazon and Google have to pay a fine of several million euros.

These were imposed by a data protection authority. 

• Amazon

  and

  Google

  :

  US corporations

  are faced with fines of millions.

• Google

  feels

  wrongly reprimanded

  by the

  penalty

  .

• The reason for the

  penalties

  are violations of the data protection regulations in

  France

  .

Kassel - taxes, working conditions or data protection: In

Europe

, large corporations such as

Amazon

and

Google

are repeatedly criticized.

In

France

, the two US companies have now been sentenced to a

fine

of several

million euros

.

Amazon and Google: Cookies lead to a fine of millions

In

France

, the CNIL has the US giant

Amazon

a

monetary

financial penalty of

35 million-euro

penalty.

Even

Google

has sanctioned the authority.

A fine of

100 million euros is

due here.

Authority:	Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés - CNIL
Seat:	Paris
Founding:	01/06/1978
Chair:	Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin

The reason for the high

penalties

are violations of the legal provisions relating to the use of cookies when using the

Internet

.

Penalty for Google and Amazon: These violations are blamed

The data protection authority in

France

accuses

Google

and

Amazon of

not complying with the legal provisions on cookies.

On the google.fr and amazon.fr pages, cookies are said to have

been stored

on

users'

computers

without sufficient information or consent

.

+

Now it hits two giants: Google and Amazon are said to have violated data protection guidelines in France - now a million-dollar fine has been imposed.

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© Ronny Hartmann / dpa

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So-called cookies are text files.

The files are stored on the PC via a website.

These cookies are used either by the operator of the respective website or by a third party provider.

The respective web server can access the cookies again afterwards.

Cookies

are very useful for website operators.

You can:

• Users of a website can be recognized by cookies: You can surf the website without having to log in again and again.

• The shopping basket when shopping on the Internet can only be called up again and again because of cookies

• Settings can be saved via cookies.

  A customer's website can thus always be displayed directly and personalized.

• The surfing behavior of users can also be queried via cookies.

According to the authority,

several of these

cookies

were for advertising purposes.

Personal

data

can be

transmitted

to advertisers

via cookies

.

France imposes Mio fines on Google and Amazon for breaching cookies.

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Google, Amazon and data protection: Google feels that it has been treated unfairly

The US group

Google

sees itself

treated unfairly

by the data protection authority in

France

.

The data protection regulations in France are insecure and are constantly changing, said Google at the request of

PC-Tipp

.

It would

overlook

efforts by

Google

, such as internal controls and a secure

infrastructure

by the

authority

in France, so the company.

In spite of everything, the

Google group

secured

further cooperation with the authority.

The

former Burda board of directors recently warned of

tech giants like

Amazon

: Amazon must be smashed - otherwise Europe will become a digital colony of the USA.

(Lucas Maier)

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