For the National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL), “Refusing cookies should be as easy as accepting them”. However, not all play the game. This is how the French gendarme of personal data announced in a press release, Tuesday May 25, the formal notice of a “Twenty organizations” for breaches of the legislation on cookies, these small files which allow information about an Internet user to be stored.
The CNIL has sent around twenty formal notices to organizations, including international players in the economy … https://t.co/eIblDexKDp
Controls, which started in April, “Revealed that a certain number of organizations still do not allow Internet users to refuse cookies as easily as to accept them”, explains the CNIL.
If the authority has not disclosed the list of companies and public actors concerned, it is made up of “Mainly large companies in the digital economy”, whose “International players in the digital economy”. They have one month to comply or face penalties “Up to 2% of their turnover if this deadline is not respected”.