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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

Health Data Hub is a platform for pooling French healthcare data to promote medical research, hosted by Microsoft. Several associations and professionals concerned about the potential transfer of health data by Microsoft to the United States following the Schrems II ruling have referred the matter to the Conseil d'Etat ... Read more

The CNIL provides its recommendations on the keeping of a "recall book" by catering establishments, as a direct consequence of the reinforcement of health measures in maximum alert zones. 1. Data collected The data collected must be limited to that which is necessary, without any supporting documentation being required, i.e.: the identity of the person ... Read more

At the end of September, the US Chamber of Commerce published a white paper on transfers of personal data between the EU and the US following the Schrems II ruling invalidating the Privacy Shield. The purpose of the white paper is to provide European companies with information on the protection of personal data under US law for the purposes of ... Read more

On 1 October this year, the Hamburg supervisory authority made public a financial penalty imposed on a German subsidiary of the H&M group in the historic sum of more than €35 million for a serious breach of the GDPR. Since 2014, this subsidiary of the group had been collecting extremely detailed data on the private lives ... Read more

On 1 October 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) published its amended guidelines and recommendation on cookies and other tracking devices. On 19 June, the Conseil d'Etat annulled part of the CNIL's guidelines on the grounds that the general ban on cookie walls was too restrictive ... Read more