Sept. 4 (UPI) — France on Wednesday fined Google $378 million and Shein $174 million for failing to comply with the rules of cookies placed on users using their websites.
In August 2023, the CNIL carried out an inspection of Google and Shein, based on its findings, the committee decided that they both had failed to follow its regulations.
In the investigation of Google, the CNIL found that Google displayed advertisements in the form of email, which breaks the consent of Gmail users, and when creating an account, users were encouraged to choose cookies linked to personalized advertisements, which was not clear to users when selecting this option.
From these two breaches, the committee issued two fines totaling $378 million against Google and an order requiring the companies to implement measures to no longer display advertisements between emails and ensure valid consent from users for the placement of advertising cookies when creating an account.
The regulations Shein has failed to uphold were failure to obtain users’ consents before placing cookies, two incomplete information banners, insufficient second-level information, and inadequate mechanisms for refusing and withdrawing consent.