On May 18, 2021, the President of the CNIL sent around twenty formal notices to private and public bodies, including international players, on the grounds that they did not allow Internet users to refuse cookies as simply as to accept them.
The CNIL, the French policeman for personal data, announced in April 2021 that in the presence of breaches following checks or complaints, it could use the means made available to it in its repressive chain to pronounce, formal notice or public sanctions.
The organizations in question have one month to comply and incur financial penalties of up to 2% of their turnover if this deadline is not respected.
The CNIL indicates in its press release of May 25, 2021 that this was the first campaign of verifications and corrective measures since the expiry of the period granted to the actors to bring their sites and mobile applications into compliance with the new rules in terms of Cookies. Similar actions would be carried out over the next few months, this subject being one of the CNIL's priority control themes in 2021.
