ARTICLE · 05 FEBRUARY 2021

French Cookie Indigestion For Google And Amazon: The CNIL Record Fines

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One of the best New Year's resolutions that a website publisher could take -and hold- for 2021 is, without a doubt, to comply with the latest cookies' recommendations of the French Data Protection...

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Jean-Philippe Souyris

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One of the best New Year's resolutions that a website publisher could take -and hold- for 2021 is, without a doubt, to comply with the latest cookies' recommendations of the French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (the “CNIL”).

Indeed, on December 7, 2020, the CNIL fined Google 100 million euros and Amazon 35 million euros for having placed advertising cookies on users' computers, without obtaining prior consent and providing adequate information.

These sanctions, which followed several investigations from December 2019 to May 2020, are not surprising as “cookie compliance” was already among the 3 propriety themes announced by the CNIL in 2020.

This event, widely covered by the media, has the merit of reminding all digital players of the importance the CNIL attaches to advertising cookie compliance.

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French Cookie Indigestion For Google And Amazon: The CNIL Record Fines

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