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The Conseil d’État (i.e. The French Supreme Administrative Court) upholds, by a decision of 19 June 2020, the €50 million sanction imposed on Google by a decision of the CNIL of 21 January 2019. The Supreme Court confirms that: the
On 17 June 2020, the CNIL published its position on the new so-called “smart” video systems used, in particular, to facilitate the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. automatic temperature measurement (thermal cameras), detection of the wearing of masks or
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
On 9 June 2020, the CNIL published its 2019 activity report. This 100-page report provides a retrospective of the CNIL activities during 2019 by: recalling key dates and events such as the 50 million euro sanction against Google LLC or
€100,000 saved in France On March 27, 2020, the French Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’Etat) struck out a €100,000 fines imposed by the French Supervisory Authority (the CNIL) on Google in 2016. Besides the financial sanction, the CNIL had also