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French internet operator fined $53 million for unsolicited ads and tracking users without consent (therecord.media)

submitted 1 week ago by kid@sh.itjust.works to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For these two breaches, the restricted committee decided to impose a sanction on ORANGE, which is composed of:

an administrative fine of 50 million euros, which was made public.

an order to stop reading cookies after the withdrawal of consent by the person concerned, within three months, with a fine of 100,000 euros per day overdue.

Not bad.

The ads looked like this (artistic render!):