The National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil) believes that by visiting the facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com sites, French Internet users cannot refuse the use of cookies as easily as they do. is proposed to accept it. However, this is an infringement of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which must be sanctioned. As a result, the Commission announces that it has imposed fines of 150 million euros on Google and 60 million on Facebook for “Non-compliance with the law”. A decision to which is added an obligation to comply within three months.
In its press release, the CNIL indicates that it has observed “Following checks” that these sites “Offer a button to immediately accept cookies [mais] do not set up an equivalent solution (button or other) to allow the Internet user to easily refuse the deposit of these cookies ”. In other words, while one click is enough to accept, it takes several to decline. A way of proceeding that “Infringes the freedom of consent”. As for the request for compliance, it is associated with the payment of a fine of 100,000 € per day of delay.
The CNIL recalls that these decisions “Are part of the overall compliance strategy initiated more than two years ago with French and foreign players publishing high-traffic sites”. Since March 31, 2021, which marked the end of the deadline for sites and applications to become compliant, nearly 100 formal notices and sanctions have been issued.