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Europe Data Protection Digest | CNIL Sanctions Company for Linking Social Profiles Related reading: IAPP Westin Scholar finds evolving privacy law 'exciting'

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The French data protection authority--CNIL--has sanctioned the Yellow Pages online directory company for linking search results to social networking profiles. "A large portion of the 65-million member French society--25 million individuals including minors and unlisted people--were affected," writes Pascale Gelly, CIPP/E, in this month's IAPP Privacy Advisor newsletter. The service has since been suspended. Gelly writes, "The CNIL determined that the activity consisted of an unfair collection of data, as the individuals...could not be deemed as having knowingly provided their data to the social networks so that it could be used to add value to an online directory."
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