French watchdog fines Google 150 million euros for cookie compliance failure
CNIL’s restricted committee fined Google LLC 90 million euros and Google Ireland Limited 60 million euros about the way cookies can be refused on the websites google.fr and youtube.com.
CNIL found that, while websites offer a button allowing immediate acceptance of cookies, the sites do not implement an equivalent solution (button or other) enabling the user to refuse the deposit of cookies equally easily. Several clicks are required to refuse all cookies, against a single one to accept them.
CNIL justified amounts of fines in particular by the number of people affected and the considerable profits that the companies make from advertising revenues indirectly generated from the data collected by cookies.
Source: Cookies: GOOGLE fined 150 million euros
