France adopts new regime for privacy class actions
Written by Privacy & Data Security Team
A few weeks ago, France passed the Digital Republic Act which significantly enhances French citizens’ rights to privacy by offering new avenues to exercise rights and granting new powers to the French data protection authority. A recent amendment to the Data Protection Act, adopted November 18, 2016, goes a mile farther and introduces a new type of class action for privacy-related matters.
Class actions were introduced into the French Consumer Code quite recently, in 2014. Although largely inspired by the U.S.-style class action, class actions in France have a slightly different scope:
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