AMAZON EUROPE CORE

CNIL (France) case SAN-2020-013, decided 2020-12-07. EUR 35,000,000.

What the regulator decided

When a user visited amazon.fr - including by following an advertisement link from a third-party site - a substantial number of advertising cookies were deposited on the terminal without any action on the user's part, and before any information was provided; the banner shown did not describe the purposes of those cookies or how to refuse them, in breach of Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act.

Primary source

Regulator-owned URL. Quote this in legal briefs and academic citations.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000042635729

Archived snapshot

Wayback Machine snapshot of the primary source. Use this when the regulator URL might be refactored or expire.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241208090125/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000042635729

ConsentMark interpretation

Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.

Companion to SAN-2020-012 (Google). Cite together when the scanner narrative needs to anchor "ad cookies on arrival without consent is unlawful" against multiple respondents and not against a single one.

Verification trail

Verified by: donal
Verified at: 2026-05-26
Review due: 2026-11-26

Cite this case

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BibTeX

@misc{consentmark-precedent-cnil-san-2020-013,
  author       = {{ConsentMark}},
  year         = {2020},
  title        = {CNIL (France) SAN-2020-013 - AMAZON EUROPE CORE},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2020-013}},
  note         = {ConsentMark methodology v1.3}
}

APA

ConsentMark. (2020, December 7). CNIL (France) SAN-2020-013 - AMAZON EUROPE CORE. Methodology v1.3. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2020-013

Markdown

[CNIL (France) SAN-2020-013 - AMAZON EUROPE CORE - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2020-013)

Plain text

CNIL (France) SAN-2020-013 - AMAZON EUROPE CORE - ConsentMark, 2020-12-07, methodology v1.3, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2020-013