The French data protection authority CNIL fined Conde Nast €750,000 for placing cookies on its Vanity Fair website without obtaining valid user consent. The authority also found the publisher failed to adequately inform users about the purpose of "necessary" cookies and provided ineffective mechanisms for refusing and withdrawing consent.
Why it matters: The fine underscores enforcement of EU consent requirements for online tracking cookies.
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