Name Change Requests Under Protected Access
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This measure keeps individual decisions about civil status and nationality, including name change requests, out of search engine indexing when they are published through France’s official legal information system. The practical effect is privacy protection. The documents remain available on Légifrance, but only through protected access, reducing the risk that personal identity-related decisions appear in ordinary web searches.
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Key Changes
- Individual decisions on civil status and nationality cannot be indexed by search engines
- Name change-related documents remain accessible on Légifrance through protected access
- Publication must use safeguards that limit public discoverability of personal identity information
Obligations
What this law requires
Publish individual acts relating to a person’s civil status or nationality in the French Official Journal only under conditions that guarantee they are not indexed by search engines.
Make individual acts relating to civil status or nationality available on Légifrance through protected access rather than ordinary searchable publication.