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France's privacy watchdog announced Thursday that it had fined Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for imposing advertising cookies on its users.
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The National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL), the largest penalty imposed in 2022...
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ruled that Microsoft's search engine Bing did not have a system that allowed users to reject cookies or accept them.
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According to the French regulator, "when users visited this site, cookies were deposited on their terminal without their consent, while these cookies were used, among others, for advertising purposes."
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It also "observed that there was no button allowing to refuse the deposit of cookies as easily as accepting it."
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The CNIL stated that the fine was justified partly because of indirect advertising profits generated by cookies, which are tiny data files that track internet browsing.
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Bing provided a button that allowed users to accept all cookies immediately. However, they needed to click two times to reject them.