French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) · 27 November 2025
AMERICAN EXPRESS CARTE FRANCE
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€1,500,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)
- Decided
- 27 November 2025
- Country
- France
- Sector
- Finance, Insurance and Consulting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2025/FR/005
What happened
The DPA fined a credit card company €1.5 million for placing optional cookies without consent on users’ devices and for not deleting them when users withdrew their consent.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
The source doesn’t list which GDPR articles were involved.
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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