The CNIL has published its strategic plan for the period of 2025-2028. This is typical of the CNIL, who regularly inform its stakeholders of its priorities....more
Anticipating enforcement priorities of regulators may partly rely on their long-term trajectory and domestic dynamics, which differ from a country to another. This action plan reflects CNIL’s ambition (i) to be appointed by...more
The CNIL has launched an investigation into a significant data breach affecting over 33 million individuals in France, involving third-party payment operators Viamedis and Almerys. It is the biggest breach in France involving...more
The French Data Protection Authority (the "CNIL") has just published two new reference methodologies for research, studies, or evaluations necessitating access to the data in the French Healthcare database. These new...more
On October 12, 2023, the CNIL released its first guidance on how to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when developing and using artificial intelligence (AI) using personal data or impacting...more
The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) is still seeking input from Artificial Intelligence (AI) stakeholders on how to ensure that AI systems comply with data protection laws. Use of large amount of data and data...more
The French supervisory authority (CNIL) asked for public comments on its draft recommendation on data security in relation to processing that presents particularly high risks to individuals or to the public interest (the...more
A few days after the European Parliament adoption of a compromise position on the Artificial Intelligence Act (the “AI Act”), the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published, on 16 May 2023, a detailed 4-step...more
Alla luce del recente provvedimento dell’Autorità Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali Francese, la Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (“Garante” o “CNIL”), riportiamo di seguito un’analisi del...more
On December 22, 2022, France’s National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (“CNIL”) fined Microsoft’s Irish subsidiary 60 million euro for failure to comply with Article 82 of the French Data Protection Law (known as the...more
Version Française: La loi relative aux dispositifs de contrôle parental sur les appareils connectés est désormais applicable. This Law n°2022-300 of March 2, 2022 provides for new obligations in order to strengthen parental...more
Connecticut Passes the Fifth US State Consumer Privacy Law - The Connecticut governor has formally signed and passed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring (CPDA), making this law the fifth US state...more
France’s data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de Informatique et des Libertés (“CNIL”), has issued one of its highest General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) sanctions to-date against Dedalus Biologie SAS...more
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice. ...more
FTC Warns Companies to Remediate Log4j Security Vulnerability - Log4j is a ubiquitous piece of software used to record activities in a wide range of systems found in consumer-facing products and services. Recently, a...more
This quarterly update highlights some of the international data protection issues that have caught our attention, and the attention of our clients, in the past three months....more
United States - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standard - NIST Unveils Draft Guidance to Protect Critical Infrastructure - On October 22, 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST")...more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - Cybersecurity Standards Issued for Government Contractors - On January 31, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - FTC Submits Comment on the Preliminary Draft for the NIST Privacy Framework - On October 24, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced that...more
In a statement of its priorities over the next year, French data privacy regulator CNIL emphasizes the importance of a balanced approach to data protection regulation....more
The Information Commissioner’s Office or the “ICO” is the British supervisory authority charged with enforcing GDPR. The Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertes (the “CNIL”) is the French supervisory authority....more
Under GDPR, companies are required to keep certain records of their processing activities. There has been some question about the types of records controllers should keep. To help clarify the questions arising from many...more
On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, the European Court of Justice issued two rulings that further defined the right to be forgotten under European laws. The right to be forgotten, also known as the right to erasure, is a...more
As predicted, the start of 2019 provided scant respite from the frenetic pace of privacy and cybersecurity developments during 2018. This past month alone, in a blizzard of activity, regulators amended regulations and...more
As we move into the second month of 2019, we’d like to give an overview of the trends we see developing in the cybersecurity and data privacy area for the year. We’ll be sure to elaborate on these areas with more details as...more