Suzanne Smalley reports:
France’s data privacy regulator (CNIL) has fined the country’s biggest internet provider €50 million ($53 million) for sending customers ads they didn’t ask for and for continuing to use tracking code to monitor users’ activities even after they withdrew consent for the practice.
The telecom giant Orange S.A. offers an electronic messaging service that CNIL said displayed advertising “in the form of emails among genuine emails in its users’ inboxes.”
Those ads should not have been shown without user consent under the French Post and Electronic Communications Code (CPCE), CNIL said Tuesday in a press release.
Read more at The Record.