On 2 and 3 February, the G29, a group made up of the various European supervisory authorities (including the CNIL in France), assessed the consequences of the Court of Justice's decision invalidating the Safe Harbor agreement on transfers of personal data from the European Union to the United States. The G29 ... Read more
The necessary distinction between creation of the constituent elements and specific investment In a ruling dated 12 November 2015, the Cour de cassation reiterated that, in order to justify a rejection of database protection, it is not sufficient to consider that the producer of a database has not provided proof of specific investment to ... Read more
In a ruling handed down on 3 November, the Court of Cassation held that the publication director of a personal contribution space could not rely on the outsourcing of the moderator function to a service provider, or on the provisions relating to the criminal liability of website hosts, in order to absolve himself ... Read more
In a judgment of 8 September 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the French decree of 31 December 2008, which generally prohibits advertisements offering price reductions without displaying the reference price, did not comply with the European directive on unfair commercial practices. This is because ... Read more
In a judgment handed down on 1 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on the law applicable to the controller of personal data, adopting a broader concept of the notion of establishment. For the record, the data controller is the natural or legal person who decides on the purpose for which the data is ... Read more
16/10/2015 at the Maison de la Chimie
This morning, the government presented its national digital security strategy in the presence of Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Secretary of State for Digital Affairs Axelle Lemaire at the Maison de la Chimie.
Drawn up in collaboration with all the ministries, and in particular the ANSSI (Agence Nationale pour la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information) and the SGDSN (Secrétariat Général de la Défense et de la Sécurité Nationale), this strategy has 5 objectives:
Anne-Sophie POGGI is moderating the round table on free software licences "Open and closed source licensing; share and share alike" at the International Bar Association's annual conference (link to Réseaux) being held in Vienna from 4 to 9 October 2015.
A France 2 report on how supermarkets use our data "Names, surnames, addresses, ages, but also passions and consumer habits: some companies collect a wealth of information about customers who buy on the Internet or via their loyalty cards. Over and over again, these ... Read more
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