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The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés or CNIL is an independent French administrative authority whose mission is to check that data privacy law is applied. Created by law n° 78-17 of 6 january 1978 about computers, files and liberties (data privacy).
The CNIL is compoed of seventeen people from different origins, four of them are member of the parliament (Assemblée nationale and Sénat). Twelve of these members are elected by the organisation that they represent in the CNIL.
Its administrative autority status gives the CNIL a total independence in the way CNIL can choose the actions to do. However, its power is limited and defined by law. The CNIL is financed by the budget of the French State.
The CNIL registers the setup of information systems which process personal data on the French territory. In this way, more than 800,000 declarations of such systems have yet be done as of september 2004. Moreover, the CNIL checks the law to be applied in this domain and so do about 50 control missions each year. CNIL can warn organisations or people not following the law. CNIL can denounce them to the Parquet.
The principles of regulation about personal data process (the main ones are)
The archival of sensitive information can result in 5 prison term and a 300 000€ fine.
Some international , economical and political structures have been inspired. The Organisation pour la coopération et le développement économique (OCDE) ( EDCO ) in 1980, the Consil of Europe in 1981 and the United Nations (ONU) ( UNO) in 1990. In 1995, the European CommissionThe European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities is the executive of the European Union. Its primary roles are to propose and enact legislation, and to act as 'guardian of the treaties' which provide the legal basis for the EU. voted a directive in this way. In 2004 25 countries have to apply this directive.
InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu Data privacyData privacy refers to the evolving relationship between technology and the legal right to, or public expectation of privacy in the collection and sharing of data. Privacy problems exist wherever uniquely identifiable data relating to a person or persons
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