TripAdvisor was sued by Viaticum for denigration and parasitism, and challenged the jurisdiction of the Paris Commercial Court. In its ruling of 27 April 2020, the Commercial Court rejected TripAdvisor's claims and declared that it had jurisdiction, a ruling that TripAdvisor appealed. In a ... Read more
Alerted by the SIGNAL SPAM association to the behaviour of PERFOMECLIC, a very small company whose business is sending commercial canvassing by e-mail on behalf of advertisers, the CNIL carried out checks and found numerous breaches of the obligations in force in terms of commercial canvassing. In particular, PERFOMECLIC was unable to prove ... Read more
On 7 December 2020, the CNIL's restricted formation handed down sanctions for breaches of the regulations on cookies against : Between December 2019 and May 2020, the CNIL carried out online checks on the google.fr and amazon.fr websites, which revealed three types of breach of ... Read more
Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr is a national system set up at the end of 2017 with the following missions: On 3 December, it published its national study on internet users' exposure to risks. In particular, this study highlights the importance of acts of cyber-maliciousness, since 90% of internet users surveyed have already been victims of an act of cyber-maliciousness at least once, ... Read more
Between May and July 2019, the CNIL received several complaints about the companies Carrefour France and Carrefour Banque, which triggered an audit of the personal data processing carried out by these companies. The CNIL found a number of shortcomings: As the companies have since complied, no injunction has been issued ... Read more
The Portuguese company Each X Other is the proprietor of two word marks 'EACH OTHER', one in France and the other internationally, including the European Union. After noting that Levi Strauss was using the sign "MADE FOR EACH OTHER" to present its service of personalising denim jackets in two boutiques located in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, the company ... Read more
In July 2019, La Quadrature du net, an association that defends fundamental freedoms in the digital environment, brought an action before the Conseil d'Etat for ultra vires against the decree authorising the Ministry of the Interior and the Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS) to develop the smartphone application ALICEM, an application designed to certify ... Read more
After entrusting an IT service provider with the development of two iOS applications and its website using the Agile method, Oopet challenged the service provider's contractual liability and brought a claim before the Paris Commercial Court for reimbursement of the invoices paid and payment of damages and interest. The claim ... Read more
To combat the artificial increase in ticket prices, Law no. 2012-348 of 12 March 2012, which aims to facilitate the organisation of sporting and cultural events, created article 313-6-2 of the French Criminal Code. This article states that the sale or provision of the means to sell tickets, regardless of the ... Read more
The "TousAntiCovid" application has replaced the "StopCovid" application, a contact tracing tool used in the fight against the coronavirus. The new application uses the same protocol as the old one, and is based on a voluntary approach to case contact tracing via Bluetooth, with no geolocation of users. It also offers new functions ... Read more
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