While the National Computing and Freedoms Commission CNIL has attacked Apple, now it’s the social network TikTok’s turn to be fined by the French regulator. According to that, it was difficult for users to opt out of being tracked on the website, is a violation of data protection laws.
CNIL until February of last year For TikTok users, accepting all cookies is easier than rejecting them all. According to the CNIL, accepting all cookies was possible with the “accept all” button, but those who wanted to reject all cookies had to “press a few buttons”.
TikTok will have to pay a fine of 5 million euros
CNIL is now used to impose fines on the management of cookies. Recently, those arrested by the commission were Google and Facebook, and we haven’t forgotten Microsoft, which has been accused of spying on Bing users in France.
In the case of TikTok, The company now has to pay a fine of 5 million euros in our country. CNIL also evaluated that TikTok did not inform users “with sufficient certainty” about the purposes of cookies, both in the header of the information presented at the first permission level to the cookies, and in the framework of the “preferred interface” that can be accessed afterwards. Click on a link presented in the banner.
Cookie confirmation pop-ups have become a popular industry tactic to deal with the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aimed at allowing du-block citizens to withdraw consent for web tracking and profiling by advertisers. . .
For this reason, TikTok has repeatedly violated the obligations stipulated in Article 52 of the Data Protection Law. The CNIL says it bases the amount of the fine on the violation, the number of users involved, including children, and the fact that the supervisory body had warned “several times” that the practice was prohibited.
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