France

March 17, 2020

France issues first legal decision on facial recognition

The Administrative Court (TA) of Marseille has made its decision regarding the use of facial recognition technology at two French […]

March 13, 2020

Adtech giant Criteo is under investigation by the French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, following a complaint filed by privacy […]

January 21, 2020

New findings from DLA Piper show that 160,000 data breach notifications reported across 28 European Union Member States and data […]

December 11, 2019

European privacy advocacy group None of your business (NOYB)—led by Max Schrems—announced it had filed three formal complaints with the […]

November 19, 2019

The French government signed a three-year cybersecurity pact with eight of the country’s leading companies, as major world nations step […]

November 19, 2019

On November 15, 2019, the French Supervisory Authority (CNIL) published guidance on the use of facial recognition. The guidance is […]

October 4, 2019

France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital […]

October 1, 2019

France ’s data protection watchdog has urged caution over plans to allow authorities to monitor individuals’ social media posts and […]

September 2, 2019

French court the Conseil d’Etat has requested the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling on a series of […]

July 23, 2019

Without waiting for the future ePrivacy regulation, which is currently under discussion at the European level and which is not […]

July 3, 2019

Données & Design is a platform, created by French data protection authority CNIL, seeking to create spaces for collaboration and […]

July 1, 2019

French data protection authority CNIL has received an important number of individual and collective complaints (La Quadrature du Net, Privacy […]