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Session Replay Enforcement, but in French

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Following a wave of “session replay” wiretapping lawsuits in the United States, France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) has launched a consultation on tools for recording and replaying browsing...more

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Overview of the CNIL’s enforcement actions in 2024: the simplified procedure generates an increase in sanctions

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In 2024, the CNIL stepped up its enforcement action, issuing 87 sanctions, 180 compliance orders and 64 reprimands. However, only 12 decisions were made public, thus complicating the exercise of making the regulator’s...more

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Mobile Apps: What Does the CNIL Recommend From a Privacy Perspective?

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While mobile apps have become one of the major means of access to digital services, their ubiquity is accompanied by significant risks to users' privacy, due to the massive amount of personal data they collect and process....more

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Does Your Organization Maintain an Employee Facing Privacy Notice?

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On Tuesday, June 15, 2021, a French court ordered IKEA to pay 1 million euros ($1.2 million) for spying on its employees in France. The allegations included reviewing employees' bank account records, using fake employees to...more

Hogan Lovells

CNIL Publishes FAQ Clarifying Cookie Use

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The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) published an FAQ on March 18, 2021 to further explain its earlier guidelines and “recommendation” on cookies and other tracking technologies, which were published on September 17,...more

BakerHostetler

International Data Protection Update – First Quarter 2021

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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

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Facial Recognition Challenged by French Administrative Court

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In a decision (French only) dated 27 February 2020, the French Administrative Court of Marseille invalidated the deliberation of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Council which allowed to set up...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The French Data Protection Authority Publishes a Q&A to Recall the Main Characteristics of the Right to De-listing

On April 7, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) published on its website a Q&A on the right to de-listing. The right to de-listing enables a data subject to request from a search engine to remove one or...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

France Continues to Focus on Use of Biometrics

The French CNIL (the country’s data protection authority) has released rules for how companies can use the biometric information of their employees. Fingerprint scanning is a popular method for “clocking in” around the globe,...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Privacy and Data Security Client Alert | March 2019

Florida Introduces BIPA Legislation - A Florida state senator has introduced an identical version of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

France’s national data protection commission orders Microsoft to protect its users’ data

An investigation by France’s National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) has found that Windows 10 has been “collecting excessive user data” and has been tracking users’ web browsing without their consent. The CNIL has ordered...more

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