Google and Amazon fined
Last updated : December 11, 2020 11:25 am
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Google and Amazon have started facing trouble as both the companies have been slapped a huge fine by Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés (CNIL) which is a French Data Protection Agency.
The agency has imposed it s biggest ever fine of EUR 100 Million (approx Rs 900 crores) on Google and EUR 35 Million (approx Rs 300 crores) on Amazon.
Both the companies have been fined for the same reason which states that Google and Amazon s French websites didn t ask for user s consent to accept cookies, as small pieces of data were stored up in the computers while navigating through the Web.
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Amazonn.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) have been fined €100 million (roughly $121 million) and €35 million (roughly $42 million) by France’s privacy watchdog for violating user consent in cookie management, Bloomberg reports.
What Happened: The Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés, CNIL, is France’s data protection agency overlooking user safety and privacy.
It slapped Google with a hefty €100 million fine for its search engine cookie management on Thursday. Similarly, Amazon was hit with a €35 million fine for placing cookies on user devices without consent, the agency said in a statement.
Both companies are given three months to change the information they provide to users failing which an additional fine of €100,000 will be levied daily.
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