French privacy watchdog hits Google and Facebook with billion-rand fines

[Jan]

Google and Facebook slapped with billion-rand fines over cookies

Alphabet Inc.’s Google was slapped with a record French fine of 150 million euros ($170 million, R2.7 billion) by the nation’s privacy watchdog, together with a 60 million-euro (R1 billion) fine for Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, over the way the companies manage cookies.

CNIL, France’s data protection authority, on Thursday issued the companies with a three-month ultimatum “to provide internet users located in France with a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them, in order to guarantee their freedom of consent.”

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

good, about time they get cut down to size,

although we all know its a temporary reprieve, as they will simply go more underground with their data collecting policies

 

[_TrXtR_]

They going to start charging for these services and then everyone is going to be very unhappy

 

[j4ck455]

“to provide internet users located in France with a means of refusing cookies as simple as the existing means of accepting them, in order to guarantee their freedom of consent.”

What for it: Google will be saying that its very simple to just use Chrome's Incognito Windows.