A reporting form is available on the CNIL website.
The French presidential election will take place in April 2022. But perhaps by now you have received unsolicited election propaganda, via text message or e-mail. You may even have seen practices that seem to violate the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You can act now. The National Commission for Computing and Liberties (Cnil), whose mission is precisely to ensure proper compliance with the GDPR in France, announced on February 16 the launch of a reporting platform for voters. . It hosts a form that asks you for details on the nature of the inconvenience.
The Cnil takes into account procedures carried out by SMS, by telephone, by email or by post, but also by any other channel, which will have to be specified.
Depending on the case, you will have to indicate the probable reason for this communication (perhaps it was by transmitting your contact details in the past? Or you suspect an invalid recovery). In the case of a telephone call, the form will ask for further clarification: was it an automaton or a person belonging to a campaign team involved in the election?
In any case, the form will ask you to fill in the candidate (23 names are listed, but not that of Emmanuel Macron, since it is not yet officially declared – nevertheless, there is an option “Other “). You are then asked to say if you tried to contact the campaign team, and if there was a response, on time or not.
Once all this is done, all you have to do is send it to the CNIL. At the end of the election, a report will be drawn on the actions carried out and the practices that will have been observed.
The Cnil indicates that it has previously ” a series of letters to political parties and candidates who have officially declared themselves in order to make them aware of the issues of data protection on the good practices to be observed “. Ditto for firms offering electoral strategy software. But between promised commitments and concrete actions, there is sometimes a gap.
