France announced this Thursday
fines of 100 million euros for Google and 35 million for Amazon
for their respective policies of "cookies" and urges the two American internet giants to change their practices under the threat of new sanctions.
The CNIL, the French body for the surveillance of digital activity, explained in separate statements that these fines are justified, in particular, by
the automatic introduction into the computers of users who connect to their web pages of these files for advertising purposes
.
The National Commission of Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL) insisted that
"this type of 'cookies' cannot be installed without the user having expressed their consent
.
"
In addition, it considered that the information windows on the 'cookies' did not offer "any information" to that user about those that have already been installed on the computer since the moment they connected to the internet pages of the companies.
Income
Finally, Cnil reproaches Google that even when the personalization of the ads was deactivated, one of the advertising "cookies" was still stored on the computer and continued to register content for the search engine.
According to his calculations, the practices of Google, which obtains advertising revenue indirectly thanks to the information collected with these instruments, have affected "about 50 million users" in France.
The regulatory body insisted on
the "seriousness" of the offenses committed by both groups,
which since last September 20 have already modified their policy of "cookies". However, with these changes, Internet users still cannot understand the purpose of those items.
That is why it calls on them to modify the information windows for clients within three months.
If they do not do so, it will impose the payment of 100,000 euros for each day of delay.In January 2019, Cnil had already imposed a fine of 50 million euros on Google for lack of transparency, incorrect information and lack of consent in advertising personalized.
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