The American tech companies Google and Amazon have been reprimanded by the French privacy watchdog CNIL for violating the rules for cookie use in advertisements. Google was fined 100 million euros and Amazon has to pay 35 million euros.
The companies would have placed cookies on users’ computers without having requested permission in advance. According to the CNIL, the correct information about those cookies was also missing.
In January last year, Google was also fined by the French privacy watchdog. Then the company had to pay an amount of 50 million euros because it had not made it clear to users what data it collected.
Both companies will probably not be concerned about the newly imposed fines. Google’s revenue in the third quarter was 39 billion euros and Amazon’s 82 billion.