European Court of Justice Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said last Thursday that Google can choose not to extend “right to be forgotten” rules globally. In a preliminary opinion on the case involving the US search giant France’s data privacy regulator CNIL, Szpunar said that the court...
French mobile carrier Bouygues Telecom had been fined EUR 250,000 by data protection regulator CNIL for a personal data breach where the data of around 2 million customers had been compromised by a security vulnerability for two years. In its investigation, CNIL found that a...
The ruling against a small French adtech firm Vectaury is said to set a precedent throughout Europe as it may signal the end of intrusive online ads. According to a tweet by Robin Berjon, consent through the IABEurope framework is invalid since CNIL had ruled that...
According to a new Reuters survey which polled 24 European data regulators, 17 said that they are not yet ready for the GDPR, citing the lack of funding or authority as obstacles to performing their duties. France’s CNIL data privacy watchdog chief Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin lamented that...
It was reported last Monday that France is building its own encrypted messaging system as an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram which, according to the government, carry the risk of a data leak. The move is said to have been prompted by Facebook’s recent privacy scandal,...
Last Monday, French data protection authority CNIL threatened to penalize WhatsApp if it continues its current data sharing process with its parent company Facebook. CNIL found to WhatsApp to be in violation of French privacy law and gave the messaging app one month to comply....
Legislation that push for heightened protection of personal data online has been put at the forefront in recent months. For three years, French regulating body CNIL had been engaging search giant Google in a legal battle on the "right to be forgotten" of EU citizens,...
Reports last Tuesday state that Windows 10 developers have created improvements to its privacy settings. The company says they have received better feedback from users. Microsoft adjusted Windows 10's privacy settings after criticism from European data regulators, together with an investigation conducted by the French...
France — Hertz, the French car rental company has been ordered to pay €40,000 as penalty for neglecting to secure private information of an estimated 36,000 customers. Under a new digital republic regulation passed in November 2016, Hertz had committed a kind of data breach that...
Paris, France — The top EU court is anticipated to rule if Google must delist specific search results worldwide to follow an initial ruling set by the administrative court of France on privacy regulations. In March 2016, the tech giant was fined $115,000 for not removing...