Microsoft has developed a far-reaching ecosystem throughout the years, currently boasting assets such as Microsoft Bing, MSN, Windows, Microsoft 365, LinkedIn, and Xbox. In April 2019, the company added a new name to the mix – Microsoft Advertising, which came as a rebrand of Bing Ads. Speaking to B&T, Microsoft Advertising Vice President APAC… Source link
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France’s data protection regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL, has fined Google and Amazon a total of €135 million (around $163 million) between them for violating the country’s data protection laws. Google was fined a total of €100 million (around $121 million), while Amazon was fined €35 million (around $42 million). In both cases, CNIL’s complaints were similar. It said that in the past, when users visited either company’s… Source link
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Getty Images; Chris Ratcliff | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, issued Google and Amazon with substantial fines on Thursday for breaking rules on online advertising trackers, known as cookies. The watchdog ordered Google to pay 100 million euros ($121 million) and Amazon to pay 35 million euros. The CNIL said both companies had breached Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, with Google… Source link
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France’s data protection agency, the CNIL, has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent. Google has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120M) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35M (~42M) for doing so on the Amazon .fr domain under the penalty notices issued today. The regulator carried out investigations of the websites over the past year and found tracking cookies were automatically dropped when a user visited the… Source link
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