Legal Insights

More and more companies use systems and devices enabling the geolocation of their employees. To address this issue, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority, hereinafter the “CNIL”) adopted as early as in 2006 a recommendation relating more specifically to the implementation of devices designed to track motor vehicles (Deliberation […]

A CONCEPT TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY COMPANIES IN THEIR PREVENTION POLICY AND A SPECIFIC OBLIGATION TO BE COMPLIED WITH BY CERTAIN COMPANIES BEFORE JANUARY 1, 2012 The concept of physical strain at work (or physical strain in the workplace) became an important issue in the French labor and employment landscape during the debates […]

Advocates of the systematic comparison of prices between competitors have every reason to be pleased! Two recent court decisions confirmed the recognition of the positive effects of price comparability by facilitating the implementation thereof, in the name of the sacrosanct principle of free competition. First, in a judgment dated October 3, 2011 (n°09/04687), the First […]

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 […]

As mentioned in our May 2011 e-newsletter, legal practitioners and leaders of selective distribution networks eagerly awaited the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter “CJEU”)

In a deliberation dated September 21, 2011, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority, hereinafter the “CNIL”) issued a warning against the company LES PAGES JAUNES for having captured data contained in several profiles posted on social media websites, without of the knowledge of the data subjects. In March 2010, […]