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Security of personal data: a guide for action
04 November 2011CNIL has translated in english its guide designed to help data controllers to meet their obligations regarding the security of personal data.
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Cloud computing : CNIL opening debate
19 October 2011The Cloud Computing market constitutes a major economic stake. The success of its development relies in particular on guarantees with regard to data protection. In order to consider all potential solutions, both from a legal and technical standpoint and to guarantee a high level of personal data protection, the Commission informatique et libertés (CNIL) launches a call for Contributions from all stakeholders from 17 October to 17 November 2011.
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Isabelle FALQUE-PIERROTIN presents her priorities for CNIL
10 October 2011CNIL’s new Chairwoman was elected Sept. 21st, 2011. She presents her priorities for the institution, both in French and in English. In an evolving and global environment, CNIL must innovate and become more open to resolutely step into the digital world.
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Declaration from the EUROPOL JSB
27 May 2011EUROPOL’s Joint Supervisory Body recently performed its first inspection at Europol regarding the TFTP Agreement, which entered into force in August 2010. The TFTP Agreement gave the JSB a new task - to monitor whether the Europol respects the provisions of personal data protection principles in the TFTP Agreement when deciding on the admissibility of the US' requests to SWIFT. Europol is tasked with verifying whether the US' requests are proportionate and necessary - according to conditions...
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Google Street View : CNIL pronounces a fine of 100,000 Euros
21 March 2011Google has been massively collecting for several years technical data on Wi-Fi networks, in order to provide for location-based services (including the services Google Maps, Street View and Latitude). CNIL conducted a series of on-site inspections to examine the conformity of these processing operations with the French data protection law. These inspections revealed various breaches such as collecting Wi-Fi data without the knowledge of the data subjects and the recording of data relating to...