{"id":221430,"date":"2025-09-05T03:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/france-slaps-google-with-e325m-fine-for-violating-cookie-regulations"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:20:36","slug":"france-slaps-google-with-e325m-fine-for-violating-cookie-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/france-slaps-google-with-e325m-fine-for-violating-cookie-regulations","title":{"rendered":"France slaps Google with \u20ac325M fine for violating cookie regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/france-slaps-google-with-e325m-fine-for-violating-cookie-regulations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The French data protection authority has fined Google \u20ac325 million ($378 million) for violating cookie regulations and displaying ads between Gmail users\u2019 emails without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>During several investigations between 2022 and 2023, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) found that Google\u2019s Gmail email service displayed advertisements in the \u201cPromotions\u201d and \u201cSocial\u201d tabs without the consent of Gmail users, thereby breaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/article_lc\/LEGIARTI000006465787\/2008-11-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article L. 34\u20135<\/a> of the French Postal and Electronic Communications Code (CPCE).<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnil.fr\/en\/cookies-and-advertisements-inserted-between-emails-google-fined-325-million-euros-cnil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explained in a press release<\/a> issued on Wednesday, this fine was imposed because Google breached the French Data Protection Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnil.fr\/fr\/le-cadre-national\/la-loi-informatique-et-libertes#article82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article 82<\/a>) by failing to inform users who created new accounts that they were required to allow the search giant to place cookies for advertising purposes to access its services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French data protection authority has fined Google \u20ac325 million ($378 million) for violating cookie regulations and displaying ads between Gmail users\u2019 emails without their consent. During several investigations between 2022 and 2023, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) found that Google\u2019s Gmail email service displayed advertisements in the \u201cPromotions\u201d and \u201cSocial\u201d tabs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}