Precedent corpus / CNIL (France)
GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED
CNIL (France) case SAN-2021-023, decided . EUR 150M.
We have not checked whether this decision was appealed. This is not a statement that no appeal exists.
What the regulator decided
Cookies were deposited on the terminals of users visiting google.fr without their prior consent, and the consent interface did not offer an equivalent refusal control alongside the acceptance control at the first interaction; users had to navigate to a secondary panel to refuse, breaching the freely-given and equivalent-refusal limbs of Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act.
Primary source
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https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000044840062Archived snapshot
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https://web.archive.org/web/20241230173721/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000044840062ConsentMark interpretation
Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.
Fine split: EUR 90M against Google LLC + EUR 60M against Google Ireland Limited. Companion to SAN-2021-024 (Facebook) and SAN-2022-023 (Microsoft Bing). The 2025-09-01 Google decision (SAN-2025-004) is the follow-on under the same Article 82 framework.
Verification trail
Checked against the primary source on 27th May 2026. Next review 27th November 2026.
Cite this case
@misc{consentmark-precedent-cnil-san-2021-023,
author = {{ConsentMark}},
year = {2021},
title = {CNIL (France) SAN-2021-023 - GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2021-023}},
note = {ConsentMark methodology v7.8.1}
}ConsentMark. (2021, December 31). CNIL (France) SAN-2021-023 - GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED. Methodology v7.8.1. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2021-023[CNIL (France) SAN-2021-023 - GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2021-023)CNIL (France) SAN-2021-023 - GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED - ConsentMark, 2021-12-31, methodology v7.8.1, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2021-023