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
The integration of company A into company B may have an impact on the compliance of processing operations with the RGPD. If Company A's processing operations are managed by Company B as data controller, then Company B is obliged to inform Company A's customers of ... Read more
Anne-Sophie Poggi spoke alongside Professor Jean-Yves Leger at the Agora des DSI et des CIO dinner-debate on 9 September 2020 on the theme: The CIO, at the heart of the company's intangible value! To watch the video of their speech, click here!
The summer has seen a number of legal developments relating to the RGPD, which have had a major impact on all current contracts with American companies, creating legal uncertainty for businesses. The Court of Justice of the European Union has invalidated the "Privacy Shield" agreement between the European Commission and the United ... Read more
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