Precedent corpus / CNIL (France)
MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS LIMITED
CNIL (France) case SAN-2022-023, decided . EUR 60M.
We have not checked whether this decision was appealed. This is not a statement that no appeal exists.
What the regulator decided
Advertising cookies were deposited on users' terminals when they arrived on bing.com without their prior consent, and the consent interface did not offer a "refuse" mechanism with the same simplicity as the "accept" mechanism, breaching the freely-given and equivalent- refusal limbs 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/CNILTEXT000046768989Archived snapshot
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https://web.archive.org/web/20250209183135/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000046768989ConsentMark interpretation
Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.
Bing (Microsoft search engine) precedent. Cite alongside SAN-2021-024 (Facebook), SAN-2021-023 (Google) and SAN-2022-027 (TikTok) for the pan-platform asymmetric-refuse pattern; the EUR 60M scale signals that the CNIL does not treat the asymmetry as a paperwork failing.
Verification trail
Checked against the primary source on 27th May 2026. Next review 27th November 2026.
Cite this case
@misc{consentmark-precedent-cnil-san-2022-023,
author = {{ConsentMark}},
year = {2022},
title = {CNIL (France) SAN-2022-023 - MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS LIMITED},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-023}},
note = {ConsentMark methodology v7.8.1}
}ConsentMark. (2022, December 19). CNIL (France) SAN-2022-023 - MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS LIMITED. Methodology v7.8.1. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-023[CNIL (France) SAN-2022-023 - MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS LIMITED - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-023)CNIL (France) SAN-2022-023 - MICROSOFT IRELAND OPERATIONS LIMITED - ConsentMark, 2022-12-19, methodology v7.8.1, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-023