10 December 2020, 5:42 am EST By France's official data protection agency called the CNIL, has recently slapped both Google and Amazon with certain fines for dropping unsolicited tracking cookies. Google has received a $120M fine while Amazon has received a $42M fine. Are tracking cookies dangerous? According to an article by TechCrunch, the regulators previously carried out the investigation of the said websites over the course of the past year and have been able to find tracking cookies that were reportedly automatically dropped when a certain user visits the domain. This is in breach of the country's own Data Protection Act. Google's case with the CNIL has recently found three different consent violations that were related to dropping certain non-essential cookies. A penalty notice was translated from French to english to get the gist of what the fine was specifically for.