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Fight against illegal online gambling websites

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • November 30 2012

By virtue of an order of 19 October 2012, the French Online Gambling Regulatory Authority (ARJEL) has been missioned to implement a processing of personal data aimed at fighting against illegal online gambling websites

ARCEP investigation regarding interconnection and the routing of internet traffic

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • December 31 2012

The ARCEP published on December 12, 2012 the decision n12-1545 dated November 22, 2012 related to the opening of an administrative investigation

Street View: the CNIL fines Google

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 29 2011

Further to checks carried out by the CNIL at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010, the CNIL observed that the vehicles used by Google over the French territory to develop its Street View service collected and recorded photographs and the flow of data from individuals' Wi-Fi wireless networks without their knowledge

.fr domain names

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • May 6 2011

The Registry for .FR domain names (AFNIC) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have suspended the procedures for the resolution of the disputes relating to .FR domain names (the PREDEC and the PARL procedures) as part of the implementation of the law adapting French Law to European Union Legislation in the field of health, employment and electronic communications of 23 March 2011 (please refer to the Legal and regulatory update - March 2011

LCEN application decree

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • May 6 2011

Several actors on the internet such as Facebook, eBay and Google have brought an action before the Conseil d'Etat (the French supreme administrative Court) to obtain the cancellation of the second implementation decree of the Law on the Confidence in the Digital Economy (LCEN) regarding the storage and communication of data (please refer to the Legal and regulatory update - March 2011) which requires that hosting providers and Internet access providers store user data for a one-year period

Social networks

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 3 2011

After several dismissals of employees in connection with comments posted on social networks, the CNIL published on 10 January 2011 a series of questions and answers on the need to control information published on social networks