CNIL (France) · 7 December 2020
Amazon Europe Core
About: Special categories, Unlawful processing
Fine€35,000,000Violation found
- Regulator
- CNIL (France)
- Decided
- 7 December 2020
- Country
- France
- Sector
- Not given
- Regulator’s reference
- SAN-2020-013
- Fino case number
- 2020/FR/012
What happened
The French DPA (CNIL) imposed a €35,000,000 fine on Amazon Europe Core for placing commercial cookies without data subject consent and providing insufficient information regarding the use of cookies. Amazon unsuccessfully tried to challenge the DPA's territorial competence and the legality of its investigation procedure.
Summary from GDPRhub (noyb), written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processingRead →
- Art. 9Processing of special categories of personal dataRead →
- Art. 83General conditions for imposing administrative finesRead →
- Art. 94Repeal of Directive 95/46/ECRead →
- Special categories
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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