France fined Google and Facebook € 210,000,000 for violating cookies

The French Data Privacy Service has fined Google and Facebook for violating their use of cookies.

The regulator notes that in order to accept cookies on the sites facebook.com, youtube.com and google.fr, users only need to make one click. But abandoning online trackers will not work with the same ease.

It was for this that the French Data Privacy Control Service fined the companies. Google has to pay € 150,000,000 and Facebook € 60,000,000. Both companies have three months to make the process of opting out of cookies as easy as agreeing to using them.

If the requirements are not met, Google and Facebook will have to pay an additional € 100,000 for each overdue day.

A source: Reuters