CNIL is France's independent data protection authority, enforcing privacy law and overseeing how organizations handle personal data.
678,000 DGFiP records are being marketed with names, addresses and income figures together. France logged 33 of CertiK's 52 verified physical coercion attacks on crypto holders in H1 2026.
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France's tax authority says an intruder used a stolen or misused identity to reach its systems in late June and extract data on individuals and businesses before access was cut.
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More than 270 companies signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter. Anthropic stayed out, and both sides of the case rest on the same property of published weights: once released, they are permanent.
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France's data regulator has fewer than 10 workplace complaints about smart glasses on file and says a recording light is not adequate notice on its own. Companies are already asking it whether they can ban the glasses at the door.
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Paris prosecutors have opened at least one criminal case over street videos of women filmed without consent. The data regulator has fewer than ten workplace complaints on file and a growing queue of employers asking about bans.
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Hôpital privé de la Loire lost records on 727,113 people over several days in the summer of 2025. CNIL's decision names each control that was missing. It prices the whole set at about 69 cents a record.
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The operator says an internal tool for managing and analysing fibre connections was accessed without authorisation. The forum post claiming the data counts 2,104,093 rows.
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DGFiP says the intruder used a stolen employee identifier and an authorised third party's credentials, and claimed to bypass MFA. No zero-day was involved.
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The Constitutional Council struck Article 1 two weeks before enforcement, and one of its two grounds was that the law offered no privacy guarantees for age verification.
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