TIKTOK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and TIKTOK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED

CNIL (France) case SAN-2022-027, decided 2022-12-29. EUR 5,000,000.

What the regulator decided

On tiktok.com, users could accept cookies in a single click but had to navigate multiple steps to refuse them, breaching the symmetry-of- refusal limb of Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act; the information provided about the purposes of the cookies was also incomplete, undermining the informed-consent limb of the same article.

Primary source

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https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000046977994

Archived snapshot

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https://web.archive.org/web/20240229200426/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000046977994/

ConsentMark interpretation

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Joint sanction against TikTok Technology Limited (Ireland) and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited - EUR 2.5M each. Cite alongside SAN-2021-024 (Facebook) and SAN-2022-023 (Microsoft Bing) for the pan-platform "no equivalent refuse" pattern.

Verification trail

Verified by: donal
Verified at: 2026-05-27
Review due: 2026-11-27

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BibTeX

@misc{consentmark-precedent-cnil-san-2022-027,
  author       = {{ConsentMark}},
  year         = {2022},
  title        = {CNIL (France) SAN-2022-027 - TIKTOK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and TIKTOK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-027}},
  note         = {ConsentMark methodology v1.3}
}

APA

ConsentMark. (2022, December 29). CNIL (France) SAN-2022-027 - TIKTOK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and TIKTOK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED. Methodology v1.3. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-027

Markdown

[CNIL (France) SAN-2022-027 - TIKTOK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and TIKTOK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-027)

Plain text

CNIL (France) SAN-2022-027 - TIKTOK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and TIKTOK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED - ConsentMark, 2022-12-29, methodology v1.3, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2022-027