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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.