Overview

• France’s regulator found both companies set advertising trackers without free, informed consent and offered poor options to withdraw it.
• Google was cited for a Google Account sign-up cookie wall and for Gmail inbox ads without prior opt-in, affecting about 53 million users in France.
• Google must bring systems into compliance within six months or face €100,000 per day in penalties for itself and its Irish subsidiary.
• CNIL said Shein collected massive data from cookies on roughly 12 million monthly French users and failed to inform them adequately.
• Shein plans to appeal and says it has updated systems, while Google will study the decision; prosecutors had sought €520 million for Google.