France Fines Google, Facebook €210 Million Over Privacy Violating Tracking Cookies | allinfosecnews.com

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Jan. 7, 2022, 7:35 a.m. | noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

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The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), France's data protection watchdog, has slapped Facebook (now Meta Platforms) and Google with fines of €150 million ($170 million) and €60 million ($68 million) for violating E.U. privacy rules by failing to provide users with an easy option to reject cookie tracking technology.
"The websites facebook.com, google.fr and

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