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Are German shepherds more obedient than French poodles?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France, Germany
  • -
  • August 25 2012

Perhaps

A more refined French cookie recipe

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • May 12 2012

The French data protection authority last month released a revised version of its guidance on cookies

French court narrows the scope of immunity for websites

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • February 4 2012

A French court of appeals has ruled, in Jean-Marc D. vs. JFG Networks, that a blog site was not immune from liability for violations of France’s data privacy statute

French court faults Google for suggesting search terms

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • January 28 2012

A French court last month found Google Inc. and its publications director liable for the appearance of a “defamatory” suggested search term under the search engine’s automatic search completion system

France still in search of perfect cookie

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • November 26 2011

France’s data protection agency, the Commission National de l’Informatique et des Libertés, has released yet more guidance on acceptable practices for implementing amendments to EU privacy law that requires website operators to obtain user consent prior to the installation of cookies

French cookies are beginning to taste like British biscuits

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • October 20 2011

By the sound of things, French data protection regulators thought their lawmakers were acting a bit kooky when, as we previously reported, they passed an ordinance providing that consent for the installation of cookies by a website can be inferred by browser settings

Let them eat cookies

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • European Union, France
  • -
  • September 3 2011

A new French ordinance allows businesses seeking to place cookies on a user’s computer to rely on web browser settings to satisfy the European Union requirement that they first obtain user consent

French court narrows the scope of website immunity

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 16 2011

In four recently published decisions (L'affaire Clearstream, Le génocide arménien, Les dissimulateurs, and Mondovino), the Paris Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of copyright holders who sued Google's video search site for linking to unauthorized copies of their films

French high court upholds company's review of employees' email

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • April 2 2011

France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, has ruled in Securitas France v. M. X. that it was permissible for a company to fire an employee based in part on emails he had exchanged with another employee, with whom he had a personal relationship, in which the two employees referred to a supervisor in offensive terms

French high court holds aggregator sites immune for third-party content

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • March 19 2011

France's highest court, the Cour de Cassation -- Premiere chambre civile, has ruled in two cases that aggregator Internet sites, which provide free access to videos and other online media, cannot be held responsible for third-party content since they are not publishers, but merely hosts of that content