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France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users. | News24_Business

In the largest fine imposed in 2022, the National Commission for Technology and Freedoms said Microsoft's search engine Bing had not set up a system allowing users to refuse cookies as simple as accepting them.

It also"observed that there was no button allowing to refuse the deposit of cookies as easily as accepting it." The company has been given three months to rectify the issue, with a potential further penalty of 60,000 euros per day overdue.

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