The French data protection authority is now known for imposing fines running into the millions against US tech companies. Now the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) has again imposed a fine on both Google and Amazon.

The reason for this is the tracking cookies used by the company. These were set without first obtaining the user’s consent. Amazon has to pay a total of 35 million euros and Google even 100 Million Euros. In addition to the illegal setting of cookies, the CNIL criticized the lack of information regarding a complete rejection of non-system-relevant cookies.

In addition to US companies, the individual and wholesaler Carrefour. Here the French data protection authority imposed a fine of 3, 05 million euros because the company 28 had illegally stored millions of customer data from a bonus program. Already in January of the year 2019 the search engine giant 50 Transfer millions of euros to the authority. At that time, the company was charged with two violations.

Thus the data protection of the own citizens in France is very important. Apparently there is no mercy here and strict action against violations. However, it remains to be seen whether large US corporations will learn from the past and whether there will be no more violations in the future.

Incidentally, Hardwareluxx.de has been completely tracking-free since mid-November.