U.S. companies seeking approval by the French Data Protection Agency to implement whistleblower systems in France will be able to apply online for certification of those programs, according to a representative of the French authority.
As reported by Compliance Week on Nov. 29, the French Data Protection Agency, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Liberte’s, last month issued guidelines to enable U.S. companies to comply with the whistleblower provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley without violating French data protection laws. Under that guidance, U.S. multinationals seeking to implement whistleblower systems in France need approval of such systems by the CNIL.
