TikTok fined in France for manipulative cookie consent flow

TikTok is the latest tech giant to be schooled by France’s data protection watchdog for breaking rules on cookie consent.
The €5 million penalty announced today by the CNIL relates to a cookie consent flow TikTok had used on its website (tiktok.com) until early last year — in which the regulator found it was not as easy for users to refuse cookies as to accept them — so it was essentially manipulating consent by making it easier for site visitors to accept its tracking than to opt out.
This was the case when the watchdog checked in on TikTok’s process, in June 2021, unt

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