Legal Watch No. 84 – June 2025. Augmented Cameras: The CNIL Sets New Guidelines. On July 11, the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) ruled that the use of "augmented" cameras to estimate the age of customers in tobacco shops in order to control the sale of products prohibited to minors is neither necessary nor proportionate. These […]

Legal Watch No. 83 – May 2025. European data sovereignty: wishful thinking? Microsoft's blocking of the email account of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, raises the crucial question of the digital sovereignty of France and Europe in general in the face of […]

Legal Watch No. 82 – April 2025. Data Protection and Simplification of Standards: What to Expect? The issue of simplifying standards, a recurring topic of discussion in Europe, has taken on particular importance since the change of leadership in the White House. At the Paris Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit in […]

Legal Watch No. 81 – March 2025. Data breaches: how is the law applied, and what are the penalties? Who hasn't recently received an email from their telecommunications service provider, or from the NGO to which they make a monthly donation, informing them that their contact details, login credentials, and sometimes even their bank details, have been compromised?

Legal Watch No. 80 – February 2025. Data transfers to the United States: a weakened legal framework. On February 5th, 19 Members of the European Parliament from across the political spectrum asked the European Commission to examine whether the Data Protection Framework (DPF), which governs data transfers to the United States, is sufficient to maintain the legal framework for data processing.

Legal Watch No. 79 – January 2025. Hosting professional data: beware of consumer platforms. Data hosting providers' obligations regarding the fight against child pornography have a far-reaching impact on the confidentiality of the documents we entrust to them. This is what a Parisian lawyer recently discovered to his detriment, […]

Legal Watch No. 78 – December 2024. What are the prospects for data protection in 2025? The new year continues with the gradual implementation of the European Union's "digital package," as well as new legislation aimed at strengthening the protection of personal data in the face of the challenges posed by […]

Legal Watch No. 77 – November 2024. Artificial intelligence as a work tool: what regulations are in place? The use of AI in the workplace is exploding today, often without prior planning and without employers knowing exactly how their employees are using the new tools at their disposal. Whether it concerns the now-classic language models […]

Legal Watch No. 76 – October 2024. Cyberattacks: Increased Risk and an Evolving Legal Framework. The number of cyberattacks targeting businesses and public services in France this autumn is countless. After Boulanger, Cultura, Truffaut, Grosbill, and SFR, it is now Free's turn to suffer a […]

Legal Watch No. 75 – September 2024. Anonymization or pseudonymization: evolving classifications over time? On September 5, 2024, the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) fined Cegedim Santé €800,000 for, among other things, processing health data without authorization. The supervisory authority noted that this data remained identifiable […]