French regulators have hit Google and Facebook Inc with 210 million euros (US$237.5 million) in fines over their use of “cookies,” the data used to track users online, authorities said yesterday.
US tech giants, including Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc, have come under growing pressure over their business practices across Europe, where they have faced massive fines and plans to impose far-reaching EU rules on how they operate.
The fine of 150 million euros imposed on Google was a record by the French National Commission for Information Technology and Freedom (CNIL), beating a previous cookie-related fine of 100 million euros against the
OVERDUE: The National Commission for Information Technology and Freedom had given Internet companies until April last year to adapt to the tighter privacy rules/ AFP, PARIS
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s interview with French television channel France 24 late last month (September 28) highlighted both current and future perspectives for bilateral relations between the two countries. At the same time, it sent a signal to Armenia, which has long presumed to have a much closer relationship with France (President.az, September 28). In fact, Azerbaijani-French relations go back …