Region: France

An NGO and a privacy-focused messaging platform have asked a court to urgently overturn the French data regulator’s decision to delay the implementation of its new cookie guidelines.

06 August 2019

Switzerland’s highest court has ruled that the Federal Tax Administration can share the identities of customers of Swiss bank UBS with French authorities.

30 July 2019

France’s data regulator has fined insurer Active Assurances €180,000 – around 2% of the company’s annual turnover – marking the fourth time the regulator has heavily penalised basic data security failings in the last two years.

25 July 2019

In updated cookie guidance by France’s data regulator, browsing a website can no longer be taken as consent to use the tracking technology.

22 July 2019

French privacy group La Quadrature du Net has asked the country’s highest administrative court to annul a decree by the prime minister allowing the government to use facial recognition technology in a digital identity app.

18 July 2019

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16 July 2019

France’s data watchdog is planning to release guidelines on targeted online advertising this month which a privacy NGO has said will violate the GDPR.

02 July 2019

A long-awaited report by a French MP has recommended reforms aimed at bolstering French companies’ defences against foreign data requests.

28 June 2019

After being fined by both France's data regulator and one of its highest courts for privacy infringements earlier this year, Google is set to face renewed court scrutiny of its data practices in the country.

27 June 2019

France’s highest administrative court has annulled a judgment that had ordered a university to make its candidate selection algorithm public.

21 June 2019