FranceLoi Informatique et Libertés, GDPR-Aligned Comprehensive Regime (Data Processing, Data Files and Individual Liberties Act)
In force since .
A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Operator establishment, User location, Place of effect
- Audit expectation
- on_request
- Who audits it
- Regulator
What it requires
- Establish a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 6 lawful basis before processing personal data of a person in France, and follow Loi 78-17 Article 6's cross-reference to GDPR Article 9 for any special-category data.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) (guidance, recorded ).
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Guidance link
- https://www.cnil.fr/fr/les-bases-legales/liceite-essentiel-sur-les-bases-legales
- Guidance body
- Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL)
- Open questions
- Does a private body that performs a public-service task under delegation count as an 'autorité publique' that cannot rely on legitimate interests under Article 5 of the Loi 'dans l'exécution de leurs missions'?
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Regulator
Logging duty
Controllers and their representatives keep the record of processing activities that Article 30 of the Regulation requires; Article 57 also has the controller be able to demonstrate compliance.
- Kind
- Explicit
- As of
- Provision
- Loi n. 78-17, Art. 57, applying Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Art. 30
- Trigger
- personal_data_processing
Why the legislator wanted it
- As of
- Quote
- Each controller and processor should be obliged to cooperate with the supervisory authority and make those records, on request, available to it, so that it might serve for monitoring those processing operations.
- Source link
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng
- Source kind
- Recital
- Purpose
- accountability_demonstration
- regulator_supervision
What this law does
France gives the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) domestic effect through the Loi Informatique et Libertes (Law on Information Technology, Data Files and Civil Liberties), enacted and amended for GDPR alignment. Article 6 cross-references Regulation (EU) 2016/679 for the special-category exceptions, Article 8 gives the CNIL authority to prescribe measures for biometric-data processing, and Article 19 sets the CNIL's on-site inspection powers. Article 5 lists the same six lawful bases as GDPR Article 6(1).
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes personal data.
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