In a fascinating legal deliberation handed down by the French data protection regulator CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), the energy company Électricité de France, or EDF for short, has been fined EUR 600,000 (about $600,000). The legal declaration is, in the manner of such things, rather long and (to non-lawyers, at least) legally orotund, which means you need reasonable proficiency in French to understand all the ins and outs of the matter, but the overall case boils down to four infringements.

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