France fines Apple over App Store ad targeting ePrivacy breach

A rare privacy penalty for Apple: France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has announced it imposed a sanction of €8 million (~$8.5M) on the iPhone maker for not obtaining local mobile users’ consent prior to placing (and/or reading) ad identifiers on their devices in breach of local data protection law.
The sanction decision was issued on December 29 but only made public yesterday (the text of the decision is available here in French).
The CNIL is acting under the European Union’s ePrivacy Directive — which allows for Member State level data protection authorities

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