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CNIL Imposes Record €325 Million Fine on Google: A Watershed Moment for ePrivacy Enforcement

Goodwin on 9/9/2025

The French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), imposed a €325 million fine on Google on September 1, 2025, for displaying advertisements in Gmail without prior user...more

The UK Moves to Reform the UK GDPR Aims to be Both Business Friendly and Adequate in the Eyes of the EU

Benesch on 3/22/2023

While the reform is a long way away from a certainty, it represents a departure of the UK from the EU’s strict adherence and adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation which came into effect in 2018. Earlier this...more

GDPR Privacy FAQs: Do cookie banners that disclose the use of analytics or behavioral advertising cookies, and state that...

BCLP on 8/2/2019

Probably not. A data subject’s consent to the use of analytics or behavioural cookies must be a valid “affirmative act.” While it may be argued that the data subject is indeed performing an “affirmative act” by continuing...more

GDPR Privacy FAQs: Do European privacy laws require a cookie banner when a company uses first-party session cookies?

BCLP on 7/24/2019

Probably not. A cookie can qualify as “personal data” under GDPR when it can be linked to an individual person. Even in instances where a cookie cannot be linked, it is still governed by the ePrivacy Directive and...more

GDPR’s Most Frequently Asked Questions: Are Companies Always Required to Get Opt-In Consent?

BCLP on 3/2/2018

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is arguably the most comprehensive – and complex – data privacy regulation in the world. As companies prepare for the GDPR to go into force on May 25, 2018,...more

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