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Friday, 7 January 2022 (YJC)_ France has fined Facebook and Google a total of more than $ 236 million for violating French law.
France on Thursday fined Google and Facebook for making it as easy for users to reject cookies as it is for accepting them.
The National Commission on Informatics and Freedom, France's main body tasked with protecting the privacy of users, has fined Google more than $ 169 million and Facebook more than $ 67 million for violating the French Data Protection Act. .
The commission says:
The two companies offer a button to users that allows them to instantly accept cookies without the equivalent of rejecting them.
The National Informatics and Freedom Commission said in a statement:
In order for users to reject all cookies, they must click several times, while with just one click, they can accept them all.
In addition to fining the two companies, the commission asked the French users to provide a way for them to reject the cookies as easily as they accept them.
If Facebook and Google do not heed the request of the National Informatics Commission, they will be fined about 113 thousand dollars per day.
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