by Alexandre Menais, Marie Marcoux and Sophie des Courtis
The processing of personal data in France is under the control of the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), the National Commission for Data Processing and Liberties. Pursuant to the Law n° 78-17 dated 6 January 1978 (hereafter the "Law"), the processing of personal data encompasses any set of operations which is performed upon personal data by automatic means relative to the collection, recording, development, modification, storage and destruction and any set of operations of the same nature dealing with the usage of files or data bases and interconnexions, consultations or communications of personal data.
