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noyb win: Conde Nast fined €750,000 for placing cookies without consent

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Cookie Banners Today, the French data protection authority CNIL has fined the French magazine publisher Conde Nast €750.000 for violating the consent requirements on its Vanity Fair website. noyb had originally filed a complaint against Conde Nast in 2019 (!). The decision by the French data protection authoritynoyb’s original complaints from 2019Background. In December 2019, noyb had filed complaints against three providers of French websites, because they had implemented cookie banners that turned a clear “NO” into “fake consent”. Even if a user went through the trouble of rejecting countless cookies on the eCommerce page CDiscount, the movie guide Allocine.fr and the fashion magazine Vanity Fair, these websites sent digital signals to tracking companies claiming that users had agreed to being tracked online. CDiscount sent “fake consent” signals to 431 tracking companies per user, Allocine to 565, and Vanity Fair to 375, an analysis of the data flows had shown.CNIL sanctions Conde N

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