Complaints to the Cnil have jumped 27% in 2019

This demonstrates “the very strong mobilisation around the european Regulation of the protection of personal data (RGPD),” notes the Cnil. The complaints fil

This demonstrates “the very strong mobilisation around the european Regulation of the protection of personal data (RGPD),” notes the Cnil.

The complaints filed with the Cnil, the guardian of the privacy of the French in the face of the digital, have increased by 27% in 2019 to reach 14 137, according to the annual activity report of the institution published Tuesday. This demonstrates “the very strong mobilisation around the european Regulation of the protection of personal data (RGPD),” notes the Cnil. The RGPD entered into force in mid-2018. By 2018, the number of complaints to the Cnil had already increased by 32%.

“Almost a third of the complaints relates to the publication of personal data (identity, photographs, videos, etc) on the Internet (search engines, social networks, personal websites, online media, directories,…)”, note the Cnil. In addition, 10.7% of the complaints relate to “the surveillance of employees at their location or during their working time, using tools such as video surveillance, geolocation, phone tapping.

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“The cctv concentrates the most complaints, especially when the cameras are filming the workstations all the time, or the places of pause, record the sound, or when the images are visible at a distance,” notes the Cnil, which also notes that these complaints are not aimed at private actors, but also of public actors.

The amount of sanctions explodes 51,37 million euros

Side repression, the number of warnings is slightly lower in 2019 (42 compared to 49), as the number of penalties (8 against 11). The amount of sanctions, however, explodes 51,37 million euros (eur 1,196 million in 2018, as a result of the record fine of 50 million euros imposed on Google in January 2019.

Google had been sanctioned for the failure information of its users in the exploitation of their personal data.

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This fine record, against which Google has appealed, was made possible by the RGPD, which now provides for penalties of up to 4% of their turnover for companies that do not respect the privacy of their users for advertising purposes, for example.

Date Of Update: 10 June 2020, 09:58

Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn

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