Actualités & veille juridique et technique
A 600,000€ sanction against Google Belgium
GDPR - After lockdown, controls - and sanctions - are back on track for national enforcement authorities in Europe. In Belgium on Tuesday 14 July, the Data Protection Authority (DPA) imposed a 600,000€ sanction on Google Belgium SA. The Belgian subsidiary of Google...
Italian authority imposes €16.7 million penalty on Wind 3
GDPR Sanctions - After lockdown, controls - and sanctions - are back on track for national enforcement authorities in Europe. On Monday 13 July, the Italian authority imposed a heavy penalty of €16.7 million on Wind Tre S.p.A., an Italian telephone operator, for...
Berlin’s data protection representative draws attention to major videoconferencing services
In this period marked by Covid-19 and the adaptation of employees' work arrangements, videoconferencing is an attractive alternative to face-to-face meetings. However, according to the Berlin representative for the protection of personal data (Datenschutz Berlin), the...
French Conseil d’Etat validates 50 million euro sanction against Google LLC
On Friday 19 June 2020, the Conseil d'Etat validated the 50 million euro sanction imposed by the CNIL on Google LLC for failing to comply with transparency and information obligations and for failing to provide valid consent. This sanction is now one of the highest...
Cookies and GDPR: latest news and updates
Following the recent decision of the Conseil d'État concerning CNIL Deliberation No. 2019-093 on the deposit of cookies, a point on the state of the law - and on the obligations incumbent on companies - is necessary. The latest publications and the position of the...
StopCovid: First formal notice by the CNIL regarding a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)
During the last CNIL inspection carried out on the 25th and 26th of June 2020 concerning the "StopCovid" application, the CNIL concluded that the application "essentially" complied with the GDPR and the French Data Protection Act (Loi Informatique et Libertés)....
StopCovid : Première mise en demeure par la CNIL concernant une étude d’impact (PIA)
Lors du dernier contrôle de La CNIL réalisé sur place les 25 et 26 juin 2020 dernier concernant l’application « StopCovid » elle a conclu que l’application respectait « pour l’essentiel » le RGPD et la Loi Informatique et Libertés. Néanmoins, la...
Le Privacy Shield invalidé : et ensuite ?
Suite à la décision de la Cour de Justice de l’Union Européenne invalidant le Privacy Shield (accord permettant de reconnaitre une protection adéquate des données transférées aux États-Unis), quelles solutions se présentent pour les entreprises qui transfèrent des...
La CJUE invalide le Privacy Shield
Le jeudi 16 juillet 2020, la CJUE (Cour de Justice de l’Union Européenne) a invalidé le Privacy Shield dans une décision certes retentissante, mais peu surprenante. La cause de cette invalidation : la législation américaine qui tolère, sans...