As from May 25, 2018, any and all companies, whatever their nationality and branch of activity, that collect data on EU residents must take steps to ensure an enhanced protection of such data, failing which they will face heavy fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover.
In a deliberation dated January 8, 2018, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority or “CNIL”) imposed a 100,000 euros fine on Darty (a leader in the retail of entertainment and leisure products, consumer electronics and household appliances) for not having sufficiently secured the data of its customers who had […]
The very much expected Regulation n°2016/679 of the European parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (also known as “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) has just been published on the […]
The very much expected Regulation n°2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (also known as “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) has just been published on the […]
Through its judgment of May 13, 2014[1], the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU“) allows individuals to obtain directly from the operator of a search engine, such as Google, the removal, under certain conditions, of links to web pages that display personal data relating to them. In 2010, Mr. Mario Costeja González, a […]
Companies that comply with the legislation on the protection of personal data in relation to data processing audit procedures and privacy training may now lodge an application with the Commission Nationale de l’ Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority or hereinafter the “CNIL”) in order to obtain a privacy seal. The privacy seal […]
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