More bad news for the big tech companies. If this morning the US denounced Facebook seeking the sale of WhatsApp and Instagram, now it is France that has imposed millionaire fines on Google and Amazon for not complying with the country’s Cookies law.

The fine for Google amounts to 100 million euros, while Amazon will have to pay 35 million euros . In addition to these fines, if companies continue with their attitude they will face new sanctions.

The specific offense, according to the French administration in charge of monitoring digital activities (CNIL), was l to the introduction, automatically, of cookies on the devices of users who accessed the Google and Amazon websites to collect data for advertising purposes, all without the user’s consent, something which specifies French and European law.

France will add 100. 000 euros a day more fine to Google and Amazon if they do not modify their cookie policy

Although both companies show windows on their websites about the acceptance of cookies, the CNIL considers that they did not show any information about the cookies already installed in the system and, in fact, although disable personalization cookies, Google in particular continued to use and record data for advertising in one of those cookies installed on the user’s PC.

If both companies do not modify the information windows about cookies to show Clearly the information and cookies that they install and collect, the French administration will impose 100. 000 euros per day of delay.

In this guide we teach you to eliminate cookies in Chrome.

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