Precedent corpus / CNIL (France)
TIKTOK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and TIKTOK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED
CNIL (France) case SAN-2022-027, decided . EUR 5M.
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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/CNILTEXT000046977994Archived snapshot
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https://web.archive.org/web/20240229200426/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000046977994/ConsentMark interpretation
Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.
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
Checked against the primary source on 27th May 2026. Next review 27th November 2026.
Cite this case
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year = {2022},
title = {CNIL (France) SAN-2022-027 - TIKTOK TECHNOLOGY LIMITED and TIKTOK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES UK LIMITED},
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