Protected Access for Name Change Requests
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This measure keeps certain personal decisions about civil status and nationality, including name change requests, out of search engine results. They may still be published in the French Official Journal, but only in a way that prevents indexing by search engines. People affected by these decisions get more privacy. Businesses and compliance teams using official French legal sources should know that some personal-status notices are available only through protected access on Légifrance, not through ordinary web search.
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Key Changes
- Personal acts on civil status and nationality are protected from search engine indexing
- Name change notices remain accessible through protected access on Légifrance
- Publication in the Official Journal must preserve privacy safeguards
Obligations
What this law requires
Publish individual acts relating to a person's civil status or nationality in the Journal officiel only under conditions that guarantee the acts are not indexed by search engines.
Make covered individual civil-status and nationality acts available on Légifrance through protected access rather than ordinary indexable web access.