Microsoft Fined $64 Million by French Data Watchdog Over Cookies
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Microsoft Corp. was hit with a €60 million ($64 million) fine by France’s privacy watchdog over the way it manages cookies on its bing.com search engine and was ordered to make them more customer friendly.
CNIL, France’s data protection authority said it carried out several checks on the website in September 2020 and May 2021 and “found that when a user visited this site, cookies were deposited on his terminal without his consent, even though they were used for advertising purposes.”