Microsoft fined 60 million euros by French regulators for lack of privacy mechanism

CTOnews.com, December 22 (Xinhua)-- the French National data Protection Board (CNIL) said on Thursday that Microsoft Ireland had been fined 60 million euros (about 445 million yuan) because the company did not establish a mechanism to allow people to reject Cookie as easily as Cookie.

This is the biggest ticket issued by CNIL in 2022. When a user accesses the "bing.com" search engine, the Cookie for advertising purposes is automatically stored on the user terminal, and the user does not need to take any additional action. In addition, when users continue to browse the search engine, the data is always collected without the user's authorization. However, the law requires that such Cookie can be stored only after the user agrees to the terms.

At the same time, buttons that accept the use of Cookie only need to be clicked once, while buttons that refuse to use usually need to be clicked twice.