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CNIL fines Amazon €35M over advertising cookies
€35M
≈ $37.8M at the time
CNIL
France · 2020
Status: Final
What happened
The CNIL fined Amazon for placing advertising cookies on amazon.fr visitors' devices without consent or adequate information.
How it affected users
Visitors were tracked for advertising the moment they arrived on the site.
Status timeline
Dec 10, 2020
Penalty announced.
Sources
- CNIL (France) sanctionsregulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "CNIL fines Amazon €35M over advertising cookies," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2020-12-10. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/amazon-france-cookies-2020/