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Travelling outside the EU: French Data Protection Authority Publishes a Checklist to Secure Phones and Laptops

Amid fresh fears about data protection, on November 14th, France’s data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) published a checklist of recommended actions travellers should take to secure phones, computers and tablets when travelling outside the European Union. Read the full article on International Employment Lawyer.… Continue Reading

French DPA Issues Guidance Surrounding Practice of Web Scraping

On April 30, 2020, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, published a guidance surrounding considerations behind what it calls “commercial prospecting,” meaning scraping publicly available website data to obtain individuals’ contact info for purposes of selling such data to third parties for direct marketing purposes.  The guidance is significant in two respects.  First, it … Continue Reading

French DPA Issues Robust Model Regulation for Biometric Access Controls in the Workplace

In late March, the French Data Protection Authority, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (“CNIL”) released a model regulation (the “Model Regulation”) governing the use of biometric access controls in the workplace.  Unlike many items of personal information, biometric data (such as a person’s face or fingerprints) is unique and, if stolen or otherwise … Continue Reading
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