Businesses operating in France will need to have a compliance plan in place if they want to avoid potential sanctions for breaches of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Commission Nationale de l’information et des Liberties (CNIL), the French data protection authority, would be likely to consider the steps businesses were taking towards compliance […]
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France’s Data Protection Authority, the CNIL, announced last month that in the first months of implementation of the GDPR, it may not sanction beaches of new obligations or rights resulting from the GDPR, such as the right to data portability and impact assessments. This period of grace, however, requires that the organisations are engaged in […]
The French data protection authority (‘CNIL’) published, on 19 February 2018, a press release outlining its approach in terms of enforcing compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (‘GDPR’) from 25 May 2018. Source: France: CNIL takes ”very pragmatic approach” to GDPR enforcement
The compliance package has been elaborated in consultation with stakeholders from the automobile sector, businesses in the insurance and telecoms sectors, as well as public authorities, in order to constitute a sectorial reference framework and to ensure that car users enjoy transparency and control in relation to their data. Source: Connected vehicles: a compliance package […]
Over the 4 years, the Working Party was involved in key events and actions such as the CJEU’s Google Spain ruling and operationalizing the right to be forgotten, the invalidation of the Safe Harbor and the adoption of the Privacy Shield, construction to adoption and implementation of the GDPR, key enforcement operations. Source: WP29 Presidency […]
On January 23, 2018, the French data protection authority (the CNIL) published new guidelines on the security of personal data (updating its previous security guide published in 2010 available in English ), providing practical recommendations in the form of “Do’s and Dont’s” to help businesses implement appropriate measures to protect personal data in compliance with […]
The CNIL – French data protection authority – published a new beta version of its open source PIA software. Several bugs have been fixed and new features are available as well as four new languages. Source: PIA software: updates of the beta version | CNIL
Messaging app has one month to comply or it will face sanctions for sharing user phone numbers and usage data for ‘business intelligence’ purposes Source: France orders WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with Facebook without consent | Technology | The Guardian
Public awareness around the role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in our everyday lives has been rising subsequently in the past few months: the role of social media in the U.S. presidential election is an example of such an interest. Source: How can humans keep the upper hand? Report on the ethical matters raised by […]
On October 17, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”), after a consultation with multiple industry participants that was launched on March 23, 2016, published its compliance pack on connected vehicles (the “Pack”) in line with its report of October 3, 2016 . Source: French DPA Publishes a Compliance Pack Regarding Connected Vehicles