The CNIL imposes fines of 100 and 35 million euros on Google and Amazo

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The giants of the web are getting slapped on the fingers.

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.

The CNIL criticizes in particular Google.fr and Amazon.fr the practice of depositing advertising tracers on the computer of the Internet user "without his prior consent".

Three months to change their information banner

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.

In addition to the fines, the National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil) "ordered companies to modify their information banner, within three months", with a fine of 100,000 euros per day late after the expiration 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.

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