Google and Facebook have been fined $235 million for tracking cookies in France. The Commission Nationale de I’informatique et Des Libertes (CNIL) has fined Google 150 million euros and Facebook 60 million euros for breaching French data privacy rules. Both tech giants will be fined another 100,000 euros per day if they do not fix the issues in the next three months.

It is not the first time that the CNIL has fined the tech platforms. In December 2020, the French regulator had fined the tech giant Amazon 35 million euros and Google 100 million euros for cookie violations under the e-Privacy rules. It had also fined Google 50 million euros under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). WhatsApp was also fined 225 million euros in September last year for not being transparent about sharing data with its parent company.