(Data Protection News & Services)
On 2 March 2021, the CNIL announced its control programme for the year 2021. In addition to the inspections that the CNIL carries out following complaints or in connection with the news, the CNIL will focus its inspection activities on
On February 10, 2021, member states agreed on a negotiating mandate for revised rules on the protection of privacy and confidentiality in the use of electronic communications services (e-privacy regulation). These updated ‘ePrivacy’ regulation will specify when service providers are
On December 7, 2020, the CNIL (the French data protetion authority) pronounced two record sanctions of €100 million against GOOGLE LLC and GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED (€60 and €40 million respectively), and €35 million against AMAZON EUROPE CORE for non-compliance with
In a decision of 19 June 2020, the Conseil d’État (i.e. the French Supreme Administrative Court) ruled, as part of a judicial review, that the CNIL could not legally prohibit the use of “cookie walls” in its recommendation on cookies
The newspaper “Les Echos” reported in an article published on 12 June 2020 that the General Advocate (in French the “rapporteur public”) of the Conseil d’Etat, the French Supreme Administrative Court, shared a different view from the CNIL’s doctrine by