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Online clairvoyance: COSMOSPACE and TELEMAQUE fined €250,000 and €150,000
On 26 September 2024, the CNIL fined COSMOSPACE and TELEMAQUE, notably for excessive personal data retention, collection of sensitive data without valid consent and for failing to comply with the…
10 October 2024
Online clairvoyance: COSMOSPACE and TELEMAQUE fined €250,000 and €150,000
On 26 September 2024, the CNIL fined COSMOSPACE and TELEMAQUE, notably for excessive personal data retention, collection of sensitive data without valid consent and for failing to comply with the…
10 October 2024
Cookies equally easily accepted or refused: the CNIL sends a second series of orders to comply
After the twenty orders sent in May 2021 calling for the recipients to bring themselves into compliance with the law, the CNIL chair gave formal notice to forty other organisations that still do not…
23 July 2021
Cookies equally easily accepted or refused: the CNIL sends a second series of orders to comply
After the twenty orders sent in May 2021 calling for the recipients to bring themselves into compliance with the law, the CNIL chair gave formal notice to forty other organisations that still do not…
23 July 2021
Dark Patterns in Cookie Banners: CNIL issues formal notice to website publishers
In response to many complaints from data subjects, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has issued orders to comply to website publishers to modify their cookie banners, which are considered…
12 December 2024
Dark Patterns in Cookie Banners: CNIL issues formal notice to website publishers
In response to many complaints from data subjects, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) has issued orders to comply to website publishers to modify their cookie banners, which are considered…
12 December 2024
Refusing cookies should be as easy as accepting them: the CNIL continues its action and issues new orders
Since May 2021, the CNIL issued orders to around sixty players that do not make refusing cookies as easily as accepting them. The CNIL has continued its investigations, following which the chair has…
14 December 2021
Refusing cookies should be as easy as accepting them: the CNIL continues its action and issues new orders
Since May 2021, the CNIL issued orders to around sixty players that do not make refusing cookies as easily as accepting them. The CNIL has continued its investigations, following which the chair has…
14 December 2021
Monetisation of personal data: how much is our data worth?
The CNIL commissioned a survey on French people's perceptions of the use of their personal data and consent to online advertising. This second article in a series of three publications looks at how…
18 November 2025
Monetisation of personal data: how much is our data worth?
The CNIL commissioned a survey on French people's perceptions of the use of their personal data and consent to online advertising. This second article in a series of three publications looks at how…
18 November 2025