France

Report and Analysis

Key Resources

Data Exploitation in the French Elections

In the run up to the French presidential election of 2017, political parties increasingly used data-driven targeting techniques and companies to manage their campaigns. Here are some examples.

Long Read

Association Confraternelle de la Presse Judiciare and 11 Other Applications v. France

European Court of Human Rights Intervention On 15 September 2017, Privacy International filed an intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in Association Confraternelle de la Presse Judiciare and 11 Other Applications v. France. This case challenges various surveillance powers authorised

News

1st July 2020

Mental health site sharing your personal data? We're going after them

21st January 2019

Statement on CNIL Google GDPR fine

8th November 2018

The Letters

8th November 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Privacy International files complaints against seven companies for wide-scale and systematic infringements of data protection law

12th March 2018

A day in the life of Camille, a 25-year-old cis woman living in Paris

9th February 2018

French Minister states opposition to surveillance technology exports

18th January 2016

Mind the gap: A review of the right to privacy at the UN in 2015

30th September 2015

France seeks new international mass surveillance powers

25th March 2015

Press Release: Human Rights Organisations Alarmed By Bill That Will Give Surveillance Agencies Dangerous New Powers

Examples of Abuse

Want to know how this translate in the real world? Here is the latest example in the news.

French Data Protection Authority comes out against facial recognition experiment

The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) have decided that an experiment in which facial recognition was installed in two high schools in Nice and Marseille. The CNIL decided that the implementation didn't comply with the GDPR principles of proportionality or data minimisation, and ultimately

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Our Advocacy

The Right to Privacy in France

This stakeholder report is a submission by Privacy International (PI). PI is a human rights organisation that works to advance and promote the right to privacy and fight surveillance around the world. PI wishes to bring concerns about the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in France before the Human Rights Committee for consideration in France’s upcoming review.