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European Commission fines Meta €797.72 million over Facebook Marketplace practices

The Commission found that Meta tied Facebook Marketplace to Facebook, giving the classified-ads service a distribution advantage that competitors could not match. It also found that Meta imposed unfair conditions allowing it to use advertising data generated by rival classified-ad providers for Marketplace’s benefit.

Confirmed

Case ID: meta-facebook-marketplace-2024

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Amazon ordered to pay $25 million over children’s Alexa recordings

The government alleged that Amazon retained children’s voice recordings indefinitely, disregarded deletion requests and used retained data to improve Alexa’s algorithms.

Status
Confirmed
Company
Amazon
Authority
United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission
Decision date
19 July 2023
Penalty
US$25,000,000
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CNIL fines Amazon €35 million over advertising cookies

CNIL found that Amazon Europe Core placed advertising cookies on visitors’ devices before consent and provided inadequate information about their purpose. The authority also found that the mechanism offered to people arriving through an advertisement did not provide valid prior consent.

Status
Confirmed
Company
Amazon
Authority
French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)
Decision date
7 December 2020
Penalty
€35,000,000
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