France’s information privacy regulator announced on Thursday that it had ruled that technology companies Google and Amazon had violated EU privacy regulations in their use of cookie tracking technology, and fined them 100 million euros (HK$940 million) and 35 million euros (HK$330 million) respectively.
The French National Commission for Information and Freedoms (CNIL) said in a statement that Google and Amazon had violated the law by storing advertising cookies in their search engines without users’ consent and by failing to provide clear information on how they used the cookies and how users could refuse them. Google and Amazon have not yet responded to the CNIL’s decision.
Google was fined 50 million euros (HK$470 million) by the CNIL in January last year for violating the EU’s new data protection law in its privacy policy.
In addition, Google’s artificial intelligence of African-American female scientists Gebru (Timnit Gebru), last week in the Twitter post said she was fired for criticizing the company’s lack of gender diversity, the company said the other party to resign threat to achieve personal goals, the incident caused more than 1,000 employees protest. And admitted responsibility, said the company has launched an investigation to understand the incident and how to deal with a more respectful process.
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