France fines Microsoft 60 million euros over advertising cookies

Jago News Desk Published: 22 December 2022, 03:59 PM
France fines Microsoft 60 million euros over advertising cookies

France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) over its use of advertising cookies.

In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL) said Microsoft's search engine Bing had not set up a system allowing users to refuse cookies as simply as accepting them.

Source: BSS/AFP