{"id":818,"date":"2022-12-23T07:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T07:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2022-12-23T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T07:59:28","slug":"france-fines-microsoft-e60-million-for-forcing-ad-cookies-on-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"France fines Microsoft \u20ac60 million for forcing ad cookies on users"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcybersecuritynest.com%2F%3Fp%3D818\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share&nbsp;on&nbsp;Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=818&amp;via=CYBERSECNEST\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet&nbsp;on&nbsp;Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe&nbsp;to&nbsp;Newsletter<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-large mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The privacy watchdog in France announced on Thursday that it has assessed a penalty of sixty million euros (or 64 million dollars) against Microsoft, a leading technology company in the United States, for imposing advertising cookies on users.<\/p>\n<p>The National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL) found that Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine had not implemented a system that allowed users to reject cookies as easily as accepting them in the largest fine imposed in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When users visited this site, cookies were deposited on their terminal without their consent, while these cookies were used, among other things, for advertising purposes,&#8221; the French regulator stated after conducting investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it &#8220;observed that there was no button allowing to refuse the deposit of cookies as easily as accepting it,&#8221; as stated in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The CNIL stated that the fine was justified in part due to the company&#8217;s advertising profits and the data collected through cookies, which are tiny data files that track online browsing.<\/p>\n<p>The business has three months to fix the problem or face a possible additional penalty of 60,000 euros per day overdue.<\/p>\n<p>The CNIL stated last year that it would conduct an entire year of checks on websites that don&#8217;t use web cookies in accordance with the rules. The CNI fined Google and Facebook 150 million and 60 million euros, respectively, for similar breaches last year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcybersecuritynest.com%2F%3Fp%3D818\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share&nbsp;on&nbsp;Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/cybersecuritynest.com\/?p=818&amp;via=CYBERSECNEST\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet&nbsp;on&nbsp;Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-large mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe&nbsp;to&nbsp;Newsletter<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-large mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The privacy watchdog in France announced on Thursday that it has assessed a penalty of sixty million euros (or 64 million dollars) against Microsoft, a leading technology company in the United States, for imposing advertising cookies on users. 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