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   Google hit with massive French fine for inserting cookies and ads in between   
   emails   
      
   Date:   
   Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:15:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Google found guilty of displaying advertisements and pushing cookies in Gmail   
   without valid user consent.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Frances data protection authority, the National Commission on Informatics and   
   Liberty (CNIL), has fined Google 325 million for unlawful advertising and   
   cookie practices.    
      
   CNIL found the company's Gmail email service displayed advertisements in the   
   form of emails among the emails in the Promotions and Social tabs without the   
   correct user consent under the French Postal and Electronic Communications   
   Code, affecting 53 million French Gmail users.    
      
   Users were also steered towards accepting personalized advertising cookies,   
   with no clear information that cookies were a condition for accessing Google   
   services, affecting over 74 million French accounts and breaching the French   
   Data Protection Act.   
      
   Google hit with 325 million French data privacy fine    
      
   The fine was brought on by an August 2022 None Of Your Business (NOYB)   
   complaint  a Vienna NGO that focuses on enforcing GDPR and other related   
   privacy laws against Big Tech.    
      
   This was subsequently followed by a months-long series of investigations by   
   CNIL into Googles Gmail ads and Google account creation processes.    
      
   Along with the fine, CNIL ordered Google to stop Gmail ads without consent    
   and ensure valid cookie consent during account creation within six months.   
   Failure to do so will result in a 100,000 daily penalty thereafter.    
      
   Its not the first time that Google has had a running with Frances CNIL. It   
   received 100 million and 150 million fines in 2020 and 2021 over issues   
   relating to cookies.    
      
   However, its not just Google that faces CNIL pressure surrounding cookies.   
   Shein was hit with a 150 million fine on the same day over using cookies on    
   12 million monthly users devices in France with no valid consent, poor   
   withdrawal options and inadequate transparency.    
      
    TechRadar Pro has reached out to Google for a response to the CNIL fine and   
   instruction, but we did not receive an immediate response.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-hit-with-massive-french-fine-for-insertin   
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