The National Commission for Computing and Liberties (CNIL) on Thursday, December 8, sanctioned the telephone operator Free with a fine of 300,000 euros for not having respected “people’s rights” and “data security” of its users.
Checks have shown “several shortcomings”in particular concerning the “access requests” and “of erasure” of the ” personal data “ users explained the CNIL, seized of several complaints.
She cites examples of “low robustness” passwords, “storage and transmission in the clear” passwords, or the “recirculation” approximately 4,100 Freebox boxes “poorly refurbished”. The CNIL enjoins Free to “to comply with the management of requests for the right of access of individuals” under a “three month period”under threat of a penalty of “500 euros per day late”.
The announcement of this significant fine of 300,000 euros, which takes into account “the size and financial condition of the company”is justified by “the need to recall the importance of processing personal rights requests and securing user data”, insisted the Commission. In January, the subsidiary of the Iliad group had already been sanctioned by the CNIL with a fine of the same amount for similar reasons.
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