French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) · 8 January 2026
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Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Fine€15,000,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)
- Decided
- 8 January 2026
- Country
- France
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2026/FR/002
What happened
The DPA issued a €15,000,000 fine to a landline telephone provider for insufficient security measures and for failing to provide all necessary information to data subjects following a data breach affecting 7 million data subjects.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 32Security of processingRead →
- Art. 34Communication of a personal data breach to the data subjectRead →
- Data breach
- Data security
Sources
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