The CNIL imposes 7 million euros in fines on Fnac Darty
The data protection authority sanctions Fnac Darty for using trackers without consent on its mobile application.
These trackers made it possible to collect "in particular their browsing history in order to display product recommendations to them and to train its recommendation algorithm", specified the CNIL.
The company Fnac Darty Participations et Services was fined 6 million euros by the authority. Its subsidiary Fnac Direct, which mainly operates the Fnac site and its mobile application, was fined 1 million euros. Both sanctions include an order to comply with the law within one month. A penalty of 10,000 euros will apply for each day of delay.
Requested by AFP, Fnac “contests the legal analysis on the merits” and reserves “the right to exercise the remedies at [its] disposal to contest this decision”. For the company, this is "a divergence in interpretation of the terms of application of article 82 of the Data Protection Act concerning certain product recommendation functionalities in the Fnac mobile application".
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