Privacy - France

• French DPA issues formal notice to Microsoft to comply with data protection rules July 25, 2016
• CNIL orders Facebook to stop tracking non-users February 9, 2016
• France approves surveillance bill despite UN concerns July 31, 2015
• French Constitutional Court broadly approves Surveillance Act July 27, 2015
• French privacy watchdog raps WhatsApp over Facebook data sharing December 18, 2017
• French authorities deploy new surveillance powers to plan attack November 25, 2016
• France adopts class action regime for data protection violations November 11, 2016
• France adopts class action regime for data protection violations November 11, 2016
• French privacy row over mass ID database November 7, 2016
• A second Privacy Shield legal challenge increases threat to EU-US data flows November 3, 2016
• Entry into Force of the French Digital Republic Bill October 31, 2016
• French surveillance law is unconstitutional after all, highest court says October 24, 2016
• French surveillance law is unconstitutional after all, highest court says October 24, 2016
• French surveillance overturned by Constitutional Council October 21, 2016
• Ancillary law significantly changes the scope of sanctions in France well in advance of the GDPR October 17, 2016
• The state of emergency: overbidding mass surveillance July 21, 2016
• Facebook changes its targeting to appease the French Data Protection Authority May 27, 2016
• Civil society intervention against the French data retention law February 10, 2016
• France attacks Facebook for its bad handling of personal data February 10, 2016
• French Digital Bill grants confidentiality of electronic correspondence January 26, 2016
• France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi December 7, 2015
• Digital death December 2, 2015
• Surveillance of international communication legalized November 27, 2015
• French citizens – leaders in Europe at the application of the right to be forgotten November 26, 2015
• Hollande announces security pact November 16, 2015
• Insufficient security of clients’ data: Optical Center fined EUR 50 000 November 13, 2015
• French MEPs impede investigations on national surveillance laws October 29, 2015
• France adopts bill on international surveillance October 28, 2015
• Civil society open letter to the French Parliament against Surveillance Bill October 8, 2015
• Open letter against the draft Surveillance Bill September 30, 2015
• Right to be forgotten: rejection of Google’s internal appeal September 21, 2015
• France opens a legal process against Google for not applying the right to be forgotten globally September 21, 2015
• CNIL closed its proceedings with regards to the PSG FOOTBALL September 11, 2015
• Legal actions against anti-human rights laws September 9, 2015
• CNIL orders Google to comply to the CJEU decision on delisting personal data from searches June 22, 2015
• Last minute change of the French Surveillance Bill undermines civil liberties June 19, 2015
• CNIL orders Google to apply delisting on all domain names of the search engine June 12, 2015
• French surveillance law now before the Senate June 2, 2015
• CNIL monitoring program 2015 May 25, 2015
• Customs agencies purchased mobile surveillance technologies forbidden for use before the entry into force of the surveillance bill May 20, 2015
• Deputies plan to refer the new intelligence bill to French Constitutional Court and the European Commission May 5, 2015
• CNIL opinion on the creation of a database for terrorism offenders (FIJAIT) April 21, 2015
• The right to be forgotten: first decision delivered in application of CJEU jurisprudence April 15, 2015
• Deputies fear mass surveillance in view of the new intelligence bill April 2, 2015
• French surveillance bill would legalize data monitoring March 20, 2015
• CNIL opinion on recently adopted French intelligence bill March 5, 2015
• FFDN & Quadrature du Net lodge an appeal against Council of State February 18, 2015
• France seeks to sanction web companies for hate speech February 16, 2015
• French minister lobbies MEPs on EU passenger bill February 4, 2015
• CNIL privacy audits to increase by 33% in 2014 November 20, 2014