France imposes €135 million in fines on Google, Amazon

France's data privacy watchdog has slapped fines on two units of Google and one Amazon subsidiary, to the tune of €135 million, over advertising cookies.
The regulator said the fines were 'for having placed advertising cookies on the computers of users, without obtaining prior consent and without providing adequate information'. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on a user's computer browser that allows websites to identify users and remember their previous activity.