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France and the new EU regulation on political advertising: the CNIL updates its doctrine ahead of the 2025 implementation

Goodwin on 7/24/2025

Online political advertising has become central to modern electoral campaigns. However, the growing lack of transparency, particularly regarding funding, targeting, and data processing practices, raises serious concerns about...more

Connected vehicles: CNIL’s consultation promotes driver’s consent over fraud and car theft

Hogan Lovells on 3/31/2025

The French Data Protection Authority launches a public consultation on location data of connected vehicles, until May 20, 2025. This work will shape future regulations regarding the use of location data and its impact on...more

Mobile Apps: What Does the CNIL Recommend From a Privacy Perspective?

BCLP on 2/18/2025

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

Do App Permissions Satisfy Requirements for Valid Consent for the Purpose of GDPR?

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/17/2025

App permissions do not satisfy the requirements for valid consent for the purpose of GDPR because they lack sufficient detail and granularity, according to the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)....more

GDPR Enforcement: Lessons from Recent Data Privacy Penalties

Pillsbury - Consumer Protection Dispatch on 10/15/2024

Recent decisions by the French data protection authority (CNIL) have highlighted the importance of GDPR compliance, particularly in the areas of data retention, consent for processing sensitive personal data, and marketing...more

CNIL Fines Health Website for Unlawful Data Processing

Latham & Watkins LLP on 6/12/2023

The French Data Protection Authority imposed a €280,000 fine for GDPR infringements and a €100,000 fine for violation of French cookie rules. On 11 May 2023 the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) handed down its...more

GDPR, Cookies, and the Ever-Filling Jar of European Data Protection

K&L Gates LLP on 1/28/2022

European regulators unofficially announced the major theme of this new year, through the release of several decisions pertaining to cookies and other tracking technologies in the first 10 days of 2022. As the General Data...more

French State Council Upholds CNIL’s €50M Fine for GDPR Violations

Latham & Watkins LLP on 7/6/2020

The Council decision contains useful considerations and clarifications on the “one-stop shop” mechanism, transparency obligations, and consent for targeted advertising. On 19 June 2020, France’s Highest Administrative...more

[Webinar] Ce que vous avez peut-être manqué des actualités RGPD: la montée en puissance de l’accountability? - June 25th, 1:30 pm...

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/23/2020

McDermott Will & Emery a le plaisir de vous convier à un webinaire sur le thème "Ce que vous avez peut-être manqué des actualités RGPD: la montée en puissance de l’accountability?" qui abordera les thèmes suivants: -...more

[Webinar] What You Might Have Missed in GDPR: The Rise of Accountability? - June 25th, 1:30 pm CEST

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/23/2020

In our latest webinar we will be examining what you may have missed in the development of GDPR in the current global landscape, focusing in particular on: - Data transfers outside the EU: what to do with its standard...more

French Data Protection Authority Issues Draft Recommendations on Consent for Cookies

Jones Day on 1/29/2020

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

EU’s High Court Issues Important Opinion On Website Cookie Consent

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/22/2019

Several weeks ago, we published a CCPA FAQS on Cookies, which provides a high-level look at how the impending CCPA may apply to website cookies. The CCPA’s definition of personal information is expansive, and in preparation...more

No Consent, No Cookie! CJEU Issues Far-Reaching Decision on Cookie Consent

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/4/2019

In its long-awaited judgment, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) decided the data protection requirements for obtaining consent when using cookies. The court held that “passive” acceptance of cookies through prechecked...more

Making Sense of EU Cookie Law in the Wake of CJEU’s Planet49 Ruling

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/3/2019

The perplexing question of what U.S. companies must do to comply with EU “cookie” law became slightly more clear with the recent decision of the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in Planet49 GmbH, but numerous questions still...more

ECJ Issues First Cookie Decision After GDPR

BCLP on 10/3/2019

On October 1, the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) confirmed recent guidance from the UK and CNIL regulators in finding that the use of pre-checked boxes does not constitute consent for processing of personal information...more

New CNIL Guidelines on Cookies and Tracking Devices

BCLP on 7/29/2019

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

March 2019 IP Update: Europe’s One-Stop Shop for Privacy Regulation: For EU Companies Only?

Sunstein LLP on 4/17/2019

One key aspect of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is its aim of streamlining the regulatory process by providing “one-stop shopping”: the opportunity to deal with a single regulator with respect to all data...more

What Companies Can Learn From CNIL’s Privacy Consent Cases on Targeted Marketing

Latham & Watkins LLP on 3/28/2019

The closure of four cases involving targeted advertising provides lessons for navigating compliance standards under the GDPR. The recent closure of cases brought by the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) against four...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/7/2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Brazil's new data protection regulation, the French data protection authority's warning to two companies of potential GDPR violations and the U.S....more

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