On May 10, the French data protection agency, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), fined a facial recognition company an overdue penalty payment in the amount of €5.2 million for failing to comply with an October order. As previously covered by InfoBytes, last fall CNIL imposed a €20 million penalty against the company for allegedly violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after investigations found that the company allegedly processed personal biometric data without a legal basis (a breach of article 6 of the GDPR), and failed to take into account an individual’s rights in an “effective and satisfactory way”—particularly with respect to requests for access to their data (a breach of articles 12, 15 and 17 of the GDPR). CNIL reported that the company had two months after receiving the October order to stop collecting and processing data on individuals located in France “without any legal basis, and to delete the data of these individuals, after responding to requests for access it received.” Because the company did not submit proof of compliance within this time frame, CNIL imposed an additional fine on top of the original penalty.