The French personal data regulator (CNIL) fined Tiktok for 5 million euros for his policy on cookies, which force the user to agree to their transfer.
The agency investigated the Chinese application for social networks from 2020 to 2022 and found that the mechanism for refusing the transmission of cookies is very complex and confusing, thereby encouraging the user to accept all cookies.
According to CNIL, Tiktok policies against cookies contradicts the French law on data protection, since it “violates the freedom of the consent of the Internet.”
During the CNIL verification, I found that the Tiktok subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and Ireland presented a button that allows the site to accept cookies, but “did not introduce a button to refuse to transmit them as easily. To refuse to transmit cookies-files , several clicks are required, and not one that contradicts the data protection law. “