Google and Amazon fined €135M over misuse of cookies by French data watchdog
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge France's data protection regulator, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes or CNIL, has fined Google and Amazon a total of 135 million (around $163 million) between them for violating the country's data protection laws. Google was fined a total of 100 million (around $121 million), while Amazon was fined 35 million (around $42 million).
In both cases, CNIL's complaints were similar. It said that in the past, when users visited either company's French website, cookies - including some used for advertising - were placed on their devices without prior consent. Although both have since updated their websites to require a user's consent before placing cookies, the regulator criticized their cookie information banners...