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Investing.com -- France’s data protection authority has fined Google and Shein a total of €475 million ($553.9 million) for violations of French cookie regulations.
The CNIL announced late Wednesday that Google received a €325 million penalty while Shein was fined €150 million as part of the regulator’s broader efforts to control how large tech companies track users online.
According to the regulator, Google failed to obtain proper user consent before displaying advertisements in Gmail’s "Promotions" and "Social" tabs. The CNIL estimates that approximately 53 million individuals were illegally shown advertisements in these sections.
In Shein’s case, the CNIL found that advertising cookies were placed on users’ devices immediately when they visited the company’s website, before they had any opportunity to select their tracking preferences.
The regulator also determined that both companies failed to properly inform users that they were being tracked for advertising purposes.
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