Microsoft has been fined 60 million euros by France’s data protection authority for failing to implement a simple system that would allow users to opt out of cookies, AFP writes.
The body CNIL – the Commission on Information and Freedoms – applied the fine because in the Microsoft Bing search engine, the procedure for refusing cookies is not as simple as the procedure for accepting them.
The CNIL body has launched a campaign to check how big companies are applying the rules related to cookies, and the fine applied to Microsoft is the biggest this year in France.
Microsoft has three months to implement the requested simplification changes. Otherwise, he will have to pay a fine of 60,000 euros for each day of delay.
In December 2021, Google and Facebook were sanctioned for similar issues with fines of €150 million and €60 million respectively.
A cookie is a small file that is stored on users’ computers for the purpose of saving preferences and other information used on web pages that those users have access to. Cookies can store user preferences for certain sites and can sometimes be used to learn how visitors navigate and interact with sites.
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