By a judgment dated August 7, 2018, the First Instance Court of Paris ruled on the illegal nature – under French Consumer law and the French Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978 – of several clauses included in the various versions of Twitter’s Terms of Use, Confidentiality Policy and Rules. Twitter was ordered to […]
250,000 euros. This is the amount of the fine imposed by the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority or “CNIL”) on Optical Center, a French company specialized in optics, for having failed to properly secure its website www.optical-center.fr. This is the first time that the CNIL imposes such a heavy […]
The EU General Data Protection Regulation will take effect on May 25, 2018. Companies must take steps to ensure an enhanced protection of personal data, failing which they will face heavy fines of up to 4% of their annual turnover. The GDPR – that includes 99 articles and 173 recitals – combines both legal and […]
Two of the three Decrees adopted on September 29, 2017 in furtherance of the Law for a digital Republic came into force on January 1, 2018. This provides the opportunity to recall the new transparency and fairness requirements imposed on operators of digital platforms. Since January 1, 2018 new requirements apply to some websites, as […]
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 […]
Adopted by the Parliament on November 8, 2016, the “Sapin II Law” is primarily designed to strengthen the French anti-corruption arsenal and introduces new measures to prevent and penalize corruption. This Law also brings a number of changes to the legislation governing business relationships between economic operators, including with respect to practices that restrict competition, […]
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