Barbara Ghebali (FR)

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European rulings on the use of Google Analytics and how it may affect your business

Recent decisions out of the EU will impact the use of Google Analytics and similar non-European analytics services when targeting EU individuals, with the potential to put many organizations at risk of receiving GDPR fines. At issue was the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US through the use of Google Analytics. … Continue reading

Rejecting cookies should be as easy as accepting cookies: new sanctions by the French authority (CNIL)

By Barbara Ghebali (FR) on February 14, 2022 Posted in Compliance and risk management, Enforcement

The French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) continues its campaign against companies that do not respect the rules relating to cookies and other trackers, which the CNIL has previously reminded the market about in multiple communications and decisions. The CNIL has already issued four sets of formal notices to over 90 organizations of various sizes … Continue reading

It must be as easy to reject cookies as it is to accept them: 40 additional organizations on the radar of the CNIL

By Lara White (UK) and Barbara Ghebali (FR) on July 27, 2021 Posted in Enforcement, Regulatory response

As part of its global strategy to ensure compliance with its new cookies mandatory guidelines, and as announced in its priority control themes for 2021, in May 2021 the CNIL issued formal notices to over twenty organizations (including international actors in the digital economy and some public bodies) for not enabling users to accept or … Continue reading