In December, the Cnil imposed a fine of 60 million on Facebook - which the group paid - and gave it a period of 3 months to allow its users to refuse cookies as easily as to accept them, as required. European regulations on data protection, under penalty of a fine of 100,000 euros per day.
"In view of the response provided within the time limit" by Facebook, "which has set up a refusal button entitled + Only allow essential cookies + above the acceptance button entitled + Allow essential and optional cookies +", the restricted formation of the Cnil considered on July 11 that the social network “had satisfied the injunction pronounced”.
However, "this closing decision does not prejudge the Cnil's analysis of the compliance of the new cookie consent windows", warns the Cnil, which does not rule out future checks on the social network to verify that the new panels of information is sufficiently clear and makes it possible to collect "consent purpose by purpose".
Along with the sanction against Facebook, the Cnil had also pronounced a record fine of 150 million euros against Google for not having allowed the simple refusal of cookies on its search engine and the Youtube video platform, and had matched this sanction of an injunction under penalty, not lifted to date.
Google announced in April that it had “completely overhauled (its) approach, including changing the infrastructure we use to manage cookies,” he wrote in a blog post.
Since the entry into force of the European regulation on personal data (GDPR) in 2018, websites are required to comply with stricter rules to obtain the consent of Internet users before depositing their "cookies", plotters which allow in particular governed to follow the navigation of the user in order to be able to send him personalized advertising in connection with his centers of interest.
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