If you spend much time online, there’s a good chance you’ve visited a website that presented you with a convoluted, confusing menu about cookies. These menus have largely replaced the old banners that ...

TikTok is the latest tech giant to be schooled by France's data protection watchdog for breaking rules on cookie consent. The €5 million penalty announced today by the CNIL relates to a cookie-consent ...

France’s CNIL has fined Google €325 million, and given it six months to change 53 million French Gmail users were getting email-like ads in Gmail 74 million French Google account users were pushed to ...

France is going after the pesky online trackers known as cookies — and showing the world it's not afraid to flex its muscles against Big Tech. By announcing fines of €150 million for Google and €60 ...

France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users. In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National ...