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Data Dividend: What is Personal Data Worth?
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Data Revolution: How U.S. Privacy Laws Change the Way Data Should be Managed by Retail and Tech Industries
Fashion Counsel: Privacy in the Retail Fashion Industry
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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
In December, the French data protection agency, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), imposed a €60 million penalty against a global software development company accused of making it harder for users...more
Connecticut Passes the Fifth US State Consumer Privacy Law - The Connecticut governor has formally signed and passed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring (CPDA), making this law the fifth US state...more
France’s data protection authority (CNIL) has proved again its determination to continue its enforcement strategy by issuing some 30 new formal notices to comply with its new guidelines on cookies on December 14, 2021....more
The French Supervisory Authority has set 31 March 2021 as the end of the “reasonable period” to bring websites and mobile applications into compliance. Following the adoption and publication of its updated guidelines along...more
On 7 December 2020, the French supervisory authority CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, French data protection authority) imposed substantive fines on Amazon and Google for allegedly placing...more
The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) is the national data protection authority in France. Recently, it announced new guidance on cookies and online trackers (Guidelines). Operators of...more
Following the French Administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d’État) dated 19 June 2020 (see our alert here), the French Supervisory (CNIL) published on 01 October 2020 its updated guidelines (the Guidelines), replacing its...more
On 4 July 2019, the French Data Protection (CNIL) published its Guidelines on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. The Guidelines further detailed the nature of the interplay between the General Data Protection Regulation...more
On June 19, 2020, the Conseil d’Etat, the highest administrative court in France, annulled in part the cookie guidelines issued by the CNIL (the French data protection authority). The court ruled that the CNIL did not have...more
The Situation: On July 4, 2019, the French data protection authority ("CNIL") published revised guidelines on the implementation of cookies or similar tracking technologies in order to take into account the new requirements...more
The French Data Protection Authority (“Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés” - CNIL), the independent French administrative regulatory body whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is respected, has...more
On 19 July the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published new guidelines on cookies and trackers. These replace the existing Recommendation No. 2013-378 of 5 December 2013, are intended to be in line with...more
The French privacy regulator CNIL has released guidance on how to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when using cookies and other web tracking technologies that are an integral part of...more
It has been rough weather for Google in France. Three weeks after the French ?Data Protection Authority imposed a record fine against Google for non-compliance with the GDPR, the Paris District Court (“Tribunal de Grande...more