CNIL
Summary
The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des liberts or CNIL (French pronunciation:[knil]) is an independent French administrative authority whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data. Its existence was established by French loi n 78-17, concerning computers, files and liberties (data privacy) and enacted into law on 6 January 1978. Since 2004, the CNIL has been presided over by Alex Trk, a right-wing senator and former member of the Rally for the Republic (RPR).SAFARI was an attempt by the French government to create a centralized database of personal data.
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Morning Brief: The Sequestration; Groupon CEO runs afoul of shareholders, Google runs afoul of regulators
Monday's Morning Brief began by stating that this week would be a dominated by talk of the "sequestration", those automatic spending cuts that would occur if Congress did not reach a new budget agreement. But the week went on without any progress – and, well, today is now March 1.
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Google Faces Privacy Pushback Abroad
Regulators from 20 countries—in a European Union-led effort also entailing Asia and Canada—called on Google to revise its 10-month-old privacy policy today at a press conference in Paris. The CNIL, a French regulator, provided 12 suggestions for informing consumers more thoroughly about how their data is collected across Google’s platforms and then used for marketing.
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France calms fears over Facebook Timeline scare
After French newspapers set off a 24 hour privacy panic over Facebook messages, the country’s privacy regulator has moved quickly to tamp down the affair.
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Google to meet French regulator on privacy policy
PARIS (Reuters) - Google will meet with France's data protection watchdog next week to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator.
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Google to meet French regulator on privacy policy
PARIS (Reuters) - Google will meet with France's data protection watchdog next week to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator.
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Google defends privacy policy to European watchdog
LONDON (Reuters) - Web search giant Google defended the lawfulness of its new privacy policy and the measures it had taken to educate users about it, in a letter sent on Thursday to French data protection regulators investigating its approach.
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EU V. Google: Why Ask One Question When You Can Ask 69?
Late on Monday it emerged that the French data watchdog CNIL — which has been conducting an investigation into Google’s new privacy policy on behalf of the European Commission—had sent a letter to the search giant with a list of 69 questions.
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French data watchdog questions Google on privacy
PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection watchdog has given internet search group Google Inc three weeks to answer questions about its new privacy policy, as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French regulator.
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Android 'free' apps pass user data to advertisers, study finds
Research finds UK users' data is passed to US network – potentaily breaching European data protection laws.
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What The Web Is Saying About Google's Privacy Policy
Google’s new privacy policy, which launched today and allows personal data to be shared across the entirety of the company’s services, is taking serious fire — not least in Europe, after the French data protection watchdog CNIL said it believes that the new policy breaches European law. The French have asked for a full, EU-level investigation into the subject, something that is making headlines around the world.
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