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Criteo €40M GDPR fine confirmed by French Conseil d'État
David Pombar Lourido has flagged that the €40 million GDPR fine against Criteo has been confirmed by the French Conseil d'État: the highest administrative court in France: making it final and no longer subject to appeal. The fine reflects data collected and used without a proper legal basis across thousands of marketing stacks where Criteo is deeply embedded.
What changed
Pombar Lourido notes the broader implication: most teams do not fully control what happens after consent is collected, with signals sent before they should be or to vendors they were not aware of.
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means auditing your data flows at the network level: not just your CMP configuration: to verify which vendors are receiving signals, when, and whether consent state is being correctly respected before transmission.
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Criteo €40M GDPR fine confirmed by French Conseil d'État
David Pombar Lourido has flagged that the €40 million GDPR fine against Criteo has been confirmed by the French Conseil d'État: the highest administrative court in France: making it final and no longer subject to appeal. The fine reflects data collected and used without a proper legal basis across thousands of marketing stacks where Criteo is deeply embedded. Pombar Lourido notes the broader implication: most teams do not fully control what happens after consent is collected, with signals sent before they should be or to vendors they were not aware of.
For you, this means auditing your data flows at the network level: not just your CMP configuration: to verify which vendors are receiving signals, when, and whether consent state is being correctly respected before transmission.
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