On September 23, the French Data Protection Authority ("CNIL") published an article (source document in French) discussing an international audit by 25 different national data protection authorities of more than 300 connected devices to assess their privacy impact. Among other findings, the audit results showed that the majority of connected devices did not provide clear and complete information regarding personal data collection and processing, data storage conditions, or modalities of personal data erasure.

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