Google Analytics: The CNIL Asked a Website Operator to Stop Using Google Analytics

Google Analytics: The CNIL Asked a Website Operator to Stop Using Google Analytics

On 10 February 2022, the CNIL issued a formal notice to a website operator using Google Analytics cookies to comply with the GDPR and more specifically with the CJEU Schrems 2 ruling on the transfer of data to the US.

The CNIL considers that as long as the US authorities can access users’ data, the use of Google Analytics is not legal. The Authority has therefore asked the website operator to comply with the GDPR and if necessary, to stop using Google Analytics cookies.

Schrems 2: The French Conseil d’Etat Dismisses a Request for Suspension of Data Transfers to the US

Schrems 2: The French Conseil d’Etat Dismisses a Request for Suspension of Data Transfers to the US

By order of 12 March 2021, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) dismissed the request of various associations, including the Syndicat de la Médecine Générale (SMG) and the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (Human Rights League), asking the interim relief judge of the Conseil d’Etat to order the suspension of the partnership between the Ministry of Health and the company Doctolib as part of the plan to accelerate vaccination against COVID-19, insofar as its online appointment booking system involved the hosting of health data with an American company (AWS).