Massive fines to the giants of the web in France.
The use of "cookies", the tracking strings, has ended in the sights of the Commission nationale de l 'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), an independent administrative authority which has the task of ensuring the application of the law on the protection of personal data. used to send advertising based on user preferences.
CNIL has inflicted heavy penalties on Google and Facebook for a total of 210 million euros.
These are record fines for CNIL, which in December 2020 had established its record with a fine - also to Google - of 100 million.
A 150 million euro fine was imposed on "big G", 60 million euro on Facebook.
The two giants of the web have three months to make corrections, under penalty of payment of 100 thousand euros for each additional day of delay.
(Unioneonline / L)
