Finalfine · ePrivacy (cookie consent)
CNIL fines Microsoft €60M over Bing cookies
€60M
≈ $65M at the time
CNIL
France · 2022
Status: Final
What happened
The CNIL fined Microsoft for depositing advertising cookies on bing.com without consent and for making it harder to refuse cookies than to accept them.
How it affected users
Bing search users were tracked by default.
Status timeline
Dec 22, 2022
Penalty announced.
Sources
- CNIL (France) sanctionsregulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "CNIL fines Microsoft €60M over Bing cookies," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2022-12-22. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/microsoft-france-bing-cookies-2022/