Make no mistake, CNIL is only active to reach out big companies such as Facebook, Google or Yahoo so that the medias can speaks about CNIL as active.

Apart from that and from rewarding people by getting a well paid job inside it, CNIL is useless since 1978.

I remember listening to my law teacher in IT school back in 2000 telling us that CNIL doesn't have the budget nor the will to ensure anything.

Well now it's 2016 the commission has a 20M€ budget so they have to justify it by having some existence in the media.

for those who reads french: http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/659250-20110126-societe-la-c... https://www.data.gouv.fr/s/resources/budget-de-la-cnil-1/201...