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French operator Orange fined €50m for ads in users’ inboxes

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Martina Lindberg

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The telecommunications operator interspersed adverts between emails without obtaining appropriate consent from millions of customers.

France’s leading telecommunications operator Orange has been fined €50m ($52.5m) by CNIL for displaying advertisements placed between e-mails without the consent of the recipient users. CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, declared this to be a breach of Article L. 34-5 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code.

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