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EU launches new plan to take on GAFAM tech giants
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EU launches new plan to take on GAFAM tech giants
If agreed by member states, the plan will increase the EU s ability to impose fines on tech giants Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft
15 December 2020
A French regulator has recently imposed a €100million sanction on Google for misuse of advertising cookiesBy Joanna York
The European Commission today announced a “digital European constitution” in a bid to tame tech giants known as GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft).
Monday, December 14, 2020
On December 10, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it has levied fines of €60 million on Google LLC and €40 million on Google Ireland Limited under the French cookie rules for their alleged failure to (1) obtain the consent of users of the French version of Google’s search engine (google.fr) before setting advertising cookies on their devices; (2) provide users with adequate information about the use of cookies; and (3) implement a fully effective opt-out mechanism to enable users to refuse cookies. On the same date, the CNIL announced that it has levied a fine of €35 million on Amazon Europe Core under the same rules for its alleged failure to (1) obtain the consent of users of the amazon.fr site before setting advertising cookies on their devices; and (2) provide adequate information about the use of cookies.
UPDATE 2-French watchdog fines Google, Amazon for breaching cookies rules reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.