TikTok has been fined €5 million (540 million dollars) was fined.
The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) said TikTok UK and TikTok Ireland were fined millions of dollars for failing to comply with Article 82 of France’s data protection law. This law is basically a domestic version of the EU’s ePrivacy Directive.
First, TikTok claimed that by making it harder to refuse cookies on its site, it violated consumers’ “freedom of consent.”
“During a study conducted in June 2021, the CNIL found that while TikTok UK and TikTok Ireland companies offer buttons to immediately accept cookies, they do not have comparable solutions to allow the internet ( button or otherwise), users can easily decline deposits, instead of accepting with one click, rejecting all cookies requires several clicks. I did.”
“The Restricted Committee thought that by making the refusal mechanism more complicated, it actually discouraged users from refusing cookies and encouraged them to prefer the ease of use of the ‘accept all’ button. . “
The regulator also alleged that users were not informed “in a sufficiently accurate manner” about the purpose of TikTok’s cookies. ”
Fines will be calculated based on the number of violations identified, “the number of parties involved, including minors, and numerous previous communications from the CNIL”, making it as easy to refuse cookies as it is to accept them. need to do it.
Cookies are a controversial topic for regulators and technology companies. Last December, the CNIL fined Microsoft his €60 million ($64 million). This is because, like TikTok, we have found that Microsoft’s Bing search engine does not provide users with an easy way to opt out of third-party tracking.
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