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Sacré bleu! French high court limits employees' privacy rights in the workplace

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • France
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  • February 5 2010

The Cour de Cassation Chambre sociale, the labor chamber of France's highest court of appeals, upheld a lower court's ruling that an employer is entitled to open employee files not marked "private," even without the employee's presence or consent

French court strikes down another SOX whistleblower program

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • France
  • -
  • January 9 2010

France's highest court of appeals has ruled that multinational company Dassault Systèmes violated the law by instituting a whistleblower system that included uses not authorized by France's data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), and by not notifying employees of their right to access, correct, and object to data collected about them

France's data protection authority issues data security recommendations

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • France
  • -
  • October 24 2009

France's data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has issued ten recommendations for information technology security that the CNIL says organizations should implement in order to ensure compliance with France's Law on Information Technology and Liberties (Law 78-17 of 1978, updated 2004