France's top court upholds Criteo's €40M GDPR fine
Criteo, whose main operation in France, is displaying targeted advertising on websites managed by third parties. It does this, by collecting and processing browsing data using connection trackers - cookies - from individuals located in France and other EU member states who visit partner websites. Criteo were found to have violated several Articles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and were sanctioned €40 million.
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The problem
France's top court upholds Criteo's €40M GDPR fine. Criteo, whose main establishment is in France, operates by displaying targeted advertising on websites managed by third parties. To do this, it collects and processes browsing data using connection trackers - cookies - from individuals located in France and other EU member states who visit partner websites. The CNIL found that Criteo had committed violations of several Articles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and imposed a sanction of €40 million.
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