Precedent corpus / CNIL (France)
YAHOO EMEA LIMITED
CNIL (France) case SAN-2023-024, decided . EUR 10M.
We have not checked whether this decision was appealed. This is not a statement that no appeal exists.
What the regulator decided
Around twenty advertising cookies were deposited on the user's terminal on yahoo.com despite no expressed consent, and Yahoo! Mail users who withdrew consent were told they would lose access to the service - both breaches 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/CNILTEXT000048967251Archived snapshot
Wayback Machine snapshot of the primary source. Use this when the regulator URL might be refactored or expire.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241208085753/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000048967251ConsentMark interpretation
Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.
Cite the Legifrance deliberation rather than the cnil.fr press summary - the EN press release at cnil.fr/en/cookies-cnil-fined-yahoo-eu10-million 301-redirects to a generic landing page (verified dead 2026-05-22), whereas Legifrance is the French government's official legal gazette and carries the full deliberation text under CNILTEXT000048967251. CNIL is the lead authority on cookie enforcement under ePrivacy; quote this case whenever a scan finds advertising tags firing before consent.
Verification trail
Checked against the primary source on 27th August 2026. Next review 27th February 2027.
Cite this case
@misc{consentmark-precedent-cnil-san-2023-024,
author = {{ConsentMark}},
year = {2023},
title = {CNIL (France) SAN-2023-024 - YAHOO EMEA LIMITED},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2023-024}},
note = {ConsentMark methodology v7.8.1}
}ConsentMark. (2023, December 29). CNIL (France) SAN-2023-024 - YAHOO EMEA LIMITED. Methodology v7.8.1. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2023-024[CNIL (France) SAN-2023-024 - YAHOO EMEA LIMITED - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2023-024)CNIL (France) SAN-2023-024 - YAHOO EMEA LIMITED - ConsentMark, 2023-12-29, methodology v7.8.1, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2023-024