As a result of a law adopted on March 17, 2014 (source document in French), the French data protection authority ("CNIL") now can conduct online inspections relating to the breach of data protection regulations. This legislative change increases the powers of the CNIL and provides to the data protection authority the means to assess more efficiently and rapidly potential breaches of the data protection framework.
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