Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse

[justapilgrim]

Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse

French privacy watchdog CNIL has fined Google and Facebook for making it much harder to refuse cookies than it is to accept them.

blog.malwarebytes.com

$240,000,000 to Google is like me picking up a penny...at least it's something.
Reckon I'll ask Matt Gaetz or Rand Paul or ??? to introduce legislation that would be similar to what the French have done.

 

[IronBeard]

Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse

French privacy watchdog CNIL has fined Google and Facebook for making it much harder to refuse cookies than it is to accept them.

blog.malwarebytes.com

$240,000,000 to Google is like me picking up a penny...at least it's something.
Reckon I'll ask Matt Gaetz or Rand Paul or ??? to introduce legislation that would be similar to what the French have done.

Pretty much. They'll make the back, and more, by increasing advertising costs.