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On 13 April, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (French data protection authority – CNIL) announced that it had opened a “review procedure” to investigate five complaints concerning the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, including one lodged by MP Eric Bothorel alleging possible breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Meanwhile, Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s digital minister, called for a more moderate approach, saying that blocking ChatGPT was not the answer and that it would be better “to regulate...

Tabled by MPs Arthur Delaporte (Socialist Party) and Stéphane Vojetta (Renaissance Party), the bill “to regulate influencer marketing and combat abuses by influencers on social networks” was adopted at first reading by the National Assembly on 30 March 2023. The text contains amendments proposed by the Ministry of the Economy based on the conclusions of a report on the regulation of the influencer marketing sector published on 24 March. A code of conduct for influencers and content creators, explaining influencers’ rights and fiscal, social and regulatory obligations, has...

Commissioned in September 2022 to draft some proposals for modernising regulatory tools in the film industry, Bruno Lasserre, former president of the French Competition Authority, submitted his report to the Ministries of the Economy and Culture on 3 April following numerous meetings with representatives from across the industry. The report follows the framework set out in the letter of assignment, focusing on issues linked to the relationship between cinema operators and distributors, and therefore does not cover the funding of film-making or media chronology. The health crisis and its consequences...

While a system for checking the age of users of public online communication services that provide access to pornographic content is currently being trialled in France, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique (French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) noted on 3 April 2023 that the websites Heureporno and xHamsterLive simply required users to state that they were adults with a single click in order to access such content, while no age checks at all were carried out by the website Folieporno. The regulator pointed out that simply requiring...

In a decision of 8 March 2023, the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique ( French audiovisual regulator – ARCOM) issued a formal notice to the company La Chaîne Info (LCI), provider of the 24/7 television news service LCI, urging it to meet its obligation to exercise honesty and rigour in the presentation and processing of information. This decision follows two contentious news items broadcast in September 2022. The first, shown during the programme “Un œil sur le monde”, concerned disinformation in Russian media....