Finalfine · ePrivacy (cookie consent)
CNIL fines Google €325M over Gmail ads and cookies
€325M
≈ $351M at the time
CNIL
France · 2025
Status: Final
What happened
The CNIL's largest cookie penalty against Google covered advertising inserted directly into Gmail inboxes without consent, alongside continued cookie-consent failures.
How it affected users
Gmail users saw ads placed among their messages, and were tracked, without having agreed to it.
Status timeline
Sep 3, 2025
Penalty announced.
Sources
- CNIL (France) sanctionsregulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "CNIL fines Google €325M over Gmail ads and cookies," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2025-09-03. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/google-france-cookies-2025/