Google, Amazon fined by French data watchdog

Google racked up another record fine in the European Union, this time a $121 million penalty from France’s privacy watchdog over the way it manages cookies on its search engine.

CNIL , France’s data protection authority, also slapped online shopping giant Amazon.com with a $42.6 million fine for placing cookies, which are tracking devices, on people’s computers without their consent, according to a statement on Thursday.

The companies were given a threemonth ultimatum to make changes to the information they provide to users, or will face additional daily fines of $121,600.

The Google penalty is double CNIL’s previous highest penalties, also for the Alphabet unit.

The company has also faced intense scrutiny from the European Commission, having been fined almost $10 billion in three antitrust cases.