CNIL Archives

CNIL Publishes White Paper on Digital Payments and Data Privacy

November 23, 2021
Editorial Team
AML, Banks, Biometric, CNIL, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Payments, Financial Services, FinTech, GDPR, Personal Information, Privacy

The French Data Protection Authority’s white paper discusses how companies can comply with data privacy and security obligations. The use of card, contactless, and innovative digital payment solutions has significantly increased in recent years, fueled by the immediate impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the longer-term growth of e-commerce and open banking. In this…

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French Regulator Cracks Down on Cookies

September 20, 2021
Michael Reinhardt
CNIL, Compliance, Consumer Privacy, Cookies, Data Privacy, Data Protection, France

In June, the CNIL–France’s regulatory body for data privacy and protection–issued notices of noncompliance to approximately 40 companies that had failed to align with the CNIL’s guidelines on cookies, which were adopted October 1, 2020. In a followup report issued this week, September 14, the CNIL reported that 80 percent of noncompliant companies have since…

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2020 News in Review

Week Ending December 28 ICO Warns SolarWinds Victims to Report Breaches The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to organizations compromised by the SolarWinds breach. The breach, which was carried out by Russian hackers, affected more than 18000 organizations worldwide. ICO requires UK data controllers subject to NIS regulations to report…

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French Data Protection Authority Hands Down First Sanction as Lead Authority

The CNIL has imposed a €250,000 fine on an online retailer for GDPR infringements in cooperation with other EU supervisory authorities. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in France, Spartoo SAS (Spartoo) is one of the leaders of the European online shoe retail market. On 31 May 2018, a week after the entry into application of…

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