CNIL releases its 2018 annual report and announces its next challenges for 2019
On April 15 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released its 2018 Annual Report.
In 2018 the CNIL:
- received more than 11,000 data subjects’ complaints, which represents an increase of 32% as compared to 2017.
- sought to provide professionals with guidelines and documentation and took into account the need for legal certainty in a context of increased sanctions and the demand for greater simplification for smaller businesses.
- conducted 204 on-site inspections (including 20 on-site inspections of CCTV devices); 51 online inspections; 51 controls on a document production basis, and 4 hearings.
- of the 310 controls carried out, only 11 sanctions were adopted by the Restricted Committee.
