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CNIL launches public consultation on draft recommendations relating to multi-terminal consent

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On April 24 2025, the French supervisory authority (CNIL) issued a draft recommendation to address challenges in collecting user consent for cookies and trackers across multiple devices (the Draft Recommendation). The new...more

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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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Geolocation: employees must be informed

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France’s highest court has intervened in a case involving an employee dismissed based on the geolocation information of his work vehicle. ...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

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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

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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

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

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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

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Hosts of health data: certified compliant

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The Decree has been adopted pursuant to Order No 2017-27 of 12 January 2017 on the hosting of personal health data which substantially modified Article L1111-8 of the French Public Health Code (FPHC)....more

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

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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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