noyb win: French electronics retailer Fnac Darty fined €7 million
France's data protection authority fined electronics retailer Fnac Darty €7 million for running third-party trackers on its mobile app without user consent. The penalty follows a 2023 complaint filed by privacy advocacy group noyb.
Why this matters: This is a concrete enforcement win for people who never agreed to be tracked on a shopping app. Fnac Darty did not ask. It just ran third-party trackers anyway, handing user data to outside companies without consent. A €7 million fine is large enough to notice, and it comes from a civil society complaint, not a regulator acting on its own. That matters because it shows that privacy groups filing targeted complaints can still move the needle. Retailers operating across multiple countries should read this as a signal, not a one-off.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · Compliance · AI governance · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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