One of the top software developers in the world and US IT giant Microsoft has been compelled to pay €60 million ($64 million) after French authorities found it guilty of breaking local laws. The nation’s privacy authority announced that it had fined the corporation over its dishonest use of ad cookies, which is now the largest this year. When a user visits a website, a web server creates and... 

Google Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay a €1.1 million ($1.34 million) fine after a probe found that the company’s hotel rankings could be misleading for consumers. According to a statement issued on Monday by France’s finance ministry and fraud watchdog, Google has amended its hotel rankings practices since September 2019. The American search engine is accused of having created... 

France’s CNIL data privacy regulator said on Thursday it had fined two Google units a total of €100 million ($121 million) and an Amazon subsidiary €35 million for breaching rules on online trackers. According to the statement issued by the CNIL, Google committed two breaches of the French Data Protection Act, including using cookies without obtaining prior consent, and not providing enough...