Microsoft Dodges More French Fines After Tweak to Bing Tracking
- CNIL says firm met a deadline to make changes to technology
- Microsoft was threatened with penalties for non-compliance
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Microsoft Corp. has dodged further French privacy fines after the US firm made changes to the way it tracks users of its bing.com search engine.
French watchdog CNIL said Microsoft “responded within the allotted time-frame and made technical modifications so that tracking linked to the fight against advertising fraud would be inactive in the absence of specific consent from French users.”