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France closes ‘cookies’ case against Facebook, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Representative image (iStock) French privacy regulators on Thursday closed a case against Facebook after determining the US tech giant had changed the way it collected user data to comply with the law. Facebook was slapped with a 60-million-euro (USD 61-million) fine last December when the French regulator CNIL ruled it was failing to allow users to easily opt out of cookies, tiny data files that track online browsing. CNIL told the firm’s parent company Meta to fix the issue within three months or face further punishment. On […]

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France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

France hits Google, Facebook with huge fines over ‘cookies’ French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French users a single button to immediately accept cookies, there wasn’t an equally simple way for them to decline because “several clicks […]

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