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EMEA - Data Privacy, Digital and AI Round Up - July 2025

BCLP on 8/4/2025

As we pass the mid-point of 2025, it’s a good time to review the important developments we have seen in the first 6 months of this year, particularly reforms to the UK’s data protection laws, the EU’s pathway to...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

Virginia Finalizes CDPA Text With the Addition of Three Amendment Bills

ArentFox Schiff on 5/19/2022

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 Fines Facebook and Google For Violating the EU Cookie Law: You Need to Make it As Easy to Refuse as a Cookie, as it is to...

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. on 1/10/2022

France recently fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $169 million and Meta Platform’s Facebook $67 million on grounds that the companies violated the EU e-Privacy directive (aka the EU “Cookie Law”) by requiring too many “clicks” for...more

Record €210 Million in Fines for Breach of Cookies and Website Tracking Rules—Note e-Privacy Directive, Not Just GDPR

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/10/2022

France’s data protection regulator (the CNIL) said this week it has fined Google and Facebook a combined €210 million for breaches of laws on cookies use and tracking of user online activity. These fines were not under the...more

French Data Protection Authority CNIL on a Hunt for Cookies

Cooley LLP on 12/21/2021

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

French Administrative Supreme Court Endorses Data Protection Authority's Position on Cookies, Prohibits Prohibition on Cookie...

K&L Gates LLP on 7/24/2020

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

French Court Annuls Parts of the CNIL’s Cookie Guidelines

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/29/2020

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

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

GDPR vs. ePrivacy Directive: CNIL's Revised Guidelines for Use of Cookies and Other Trackers

Jones Day on 8/13/2019

The Situation: The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") has been effective since May 2018 and has resulted in increased requirements for obtaining consent for the processing of personal data. However,...more

France’s CNIL Publishes New Guidance on Cookies

Latham & Watkins LLP on 8/7/2019

The guidance provides general requirements for obtaining valid consent and details conditions under which audience management cookies may be exempt. On 4 July 2019, one day after the UK Information Commissioner’s Office...more

Privacy and Data Security Alert | August 2019

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 8/6/2019

French Data Protection Authority Issues Guidelines on Cookie Use - CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has released new rulesfor obtaining consumer consent under the GDPR for companies using cookies and other tracking...more

The CNIL Sharpens Requirements on Deployment of Tracking Technologies

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 7/31/2019

On July 18, 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) issued new guidance on the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies (collectively referred to as “cookies” below). The guidance clarifies the instances in...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

‘Click Here to Accept Updated Cookie Guidance’

ArentFox Schiff on 7/22/2019

Data protection authorities in the UK and France have released updated guidance for website operators that use cookies on their websites. This new guidance may mandate changes to existing cookie banners and provides further...more

New French Guidelines on Cookies and Trackers

Hogan Lovells on 7/22/2019

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

French Privacy Regulator Releases Long-Awaited Rules For Use Of Cookies

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/19/2019

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

The Paris District Court Invalidates 38 Clauses of Google+ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 4/15/2019

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

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