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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