Precedent corpus / CNIL (France)
AMAZON EUROPE CORE
CNIL (France) case SAN-2020-013, decided . EUR 35M.
We have not checked whether this decision was appealed. This is not a statement that no appeal exists.
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/CNILTEXT000042635729Archived snapshot
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https://web.archive.org/web/20241208090125/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000042635729ConsentMark 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
Checked against the primary source on 26th May 2026. Next review 26th November 2026.
Cite this case
@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 v7.8.1}
}ConsentMark. (2020, December 7). CNIL (France) SAN-2020-013 - AMAZON EUROPE CORE. Methodology v7.8.1. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2020-013[CNIL (France) SAN-2020-013 - AMAZON EUROPE CORE - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2020-013)CNIL (France) SAN-2020-013 - AMAZON EUROPE CORE - ConsentMark, 2020-12-07, methodology v7.8.1, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2020-013