Cookies: financial penalty of 35 million euros imposed on the company AMAZON EUROPE CORE | CNIL

From 12 December 2019 to 19 May 2020, the CNIL conducted several investigations, including online investigations, regarding the website amazon.fr. These investigations allowed to observe that when a user visited the website, cookies were automatically placed on his or her computer, without any action required on his or her part. Several of these cookies were used for advertising purposes.