The French DPA publishes guidelines and recommendation on cookies

On September 17th, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (also known as the “CNIL”) adopted two documents on cookies, namely guidelines (Deliberation No. 2020-091 of September 17th, 2020 adopting guidelines relating to the application of Article 82 of the Law of January 6th, 1978 as amended to reading and writing operations in a user’s terminal (in particular “cookies and other trackers”) and repealing Deliberation No. 2019-093 of July 4th, 2019) and a recommendation (Deliberation No. 2020-092 of September 17th, 2020 adopting a recommendation proposing practical methods for compliance in the event that “cookies and other trackers” are used). MORE.