The company is notably sanctioned because French users of its bing search engine could not, until March 29, refuse all “cookies” without going through a tedious configuration.
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This is the most important fine pronounced in 2022 by the National Commission for Data Protection (CNIL). The authority, guardian of the privacy of the French, sanctioned the large American group specialist in Microsoft computer science with a fine of 60 million euros, for not having made it possible to simply refuse cookies on its engine of Search bing, according to a press release published Thursday December 22.
The CNIL had announced last year a campaign of sites against sites not respecting the rules concerning these web cups and had previously pinned on this subject Google, Facebook and Amazon.
The restricted training of the Commission also enjoined Microsoft to modify its practices on the bing.com site within three months, under penalty of having to pay a penalty of 60,000 euros per day of delay.
The company is first punished because French users of its Bing search engine could not, until March 29, refuse all cookies without going through a tedious configuration. The CNIL also identified the installation of two cookies without the consent of Internet users, when they had advertising purposes.
Google and Facebook already sanctioned
For these shortcomings related to the European EPRIVACY Directive Transposed in French law in the Data Protection Act, the CNIL could pronounce a fine of up to 2 % of global turnover.
In its press release, the CNIL justified the amount of the fine “by the scope of [data] processing, by the number of persons concerned and by the profits that the company derives advertising income indirectly generated from the Data collected by cookies “.
Google and the Facebook social network had been sanctioned at the end of December 2021 by the CNIL of fines of 150 million and 60 million euros respectively for similar shortcomings. Google and Amazon had also been sanctioned at the end of 2020 for lack of user information on cookies.