cross-posted from: https://community.nicfab.it/post/24563
Yesterday it became known that on December 29 a panel of the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL; National Commission on Informatics and Liberty)--which is tasked with the enforcement of the EU's General Data Privacy Regulation in France--"imposed an administrative fine of 8 million euros" on an Ireland-based Apple subsidiary for failing to obtain the consent of French iPhone users (specifically, users of version 14.6 of the operating system) "before depositing and/or writing identifiers used for advertising purposes on their terminals."