(Data Protection News & Services)
On 15 February 2022, the CNIL released its control programme for the year 2022. This year the priority themes are as follows:
Direct marketing ;
Employee’s monitoring in the context of remote working;
Cloud computing.
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.
On 30 and 31 December 2021, the CNIL sanctionned :
FACEBOOK IRELAND LIMITED with a € 60 million fine ; and
GOOGLE with a fine totalling €150 million (€ 90 million for GOOGLE LLC and € 60 million for GOOGLE IRELAND LIMITED)
because they did not allow users of the social network facebook.com and the websites google.fr and youtube.com residing in France to refuse cookies as easily as to accept them.
On 17 June 2021, the CNIL imposed a fine of 500,000 Euros and an obligation to comply within 3 months under a penalty of 500 Euros per day on BRICO PRIVÉ, a French company opearating a DIY private sales website
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