Google said in a statement that “people trust us to respect their right to privacy and keep them safe” and that the company understands its “responsibility to protect that trust and are committing to further changes and active work with the CNIL in light of this decision”.įacebook said it’s reviewing the authority’s decision. Since March 31, 2021, when the deadline set for websites and mobile applications to comply with the new rules on cookies expired, the CNIL has adopted nearly 100 corrective measures (orders and sanctions) related to non-compliance with the legislation on cookies. The restricted committee, the body in charge of sanctions, considered that the process regarding cookies affects the freedom of consent of Internet users and constitutes an infringement of the French Data Protection Act, which demands that it should be as easy to refuse cookies as to accept them. This EU law allows watchdogs to levy penalties of as much as 4% of a company’s annual global sales. GDPRĮU data protection regulators’ powers have increased significantly since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May 2018. If they don’t, the companies will have to pay a penalty of 100,000 euros for each day they delay. In addition to the fines, the companies have been given three months to provide Internet users in France with a way to refuse cookies that’s as simple as accepting them. Several clicks were required to refuse all cookies, against a single one to accept them. It found that while the sites offered buttons for allowing immediate acceptance of cookies, the sites didn’t implement an equivalent solution to let users refuse them. The CNIL carried out an online investigation after receiving complaints from users about the way cookies were handled on these sites. French privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has hit Google with a 150 million euro fine and Facebook with a 60 million euro fine, because their websites-,, and -don’t make refusing cookies as easy as accepting them.
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