Data Privacy & Tech

Protected Access for Name Change Requests

🇫🇷France··Other·Low Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This measure limits public exposure of personal name change records. Individual decisions about a person's civil status or nationality may appear in the French Official Journal only if they are protected from indexing by search engines. In practice, the records remain available on Légifrance through protected access, but they should not be easily found through general web searches. This affects people involved in name change, civil status, or nationality decisions, and it gives public authorities a privacy safeguard when publishing sensitive personal acts.

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Key Changes

  • Requires protected access for certain personal civil status and nationality acts published in the Official Journal
  • Prevents these sensitive records from being indexed by search engines
  • Keeps access available through Légifrance while reducing public search visibility

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Publish individual acts relating to a person's civil status or nationality in the French Official Journal only under conditions that prevent indexing by search engines.

French public authorities responsible for publishing individual civil status or nationality acts in the Official Journal
prohibition
medium

Make covered individual civil status and nationality acts available on Légifrance through protected access rather than ordinary publicly indexable access.

Légifrance administratorsFrench public authorities responsible for legal publication
operational

Affected Parties

People applying for or affected by name changesPeople concerned by civil status or nationality decisions+1 more…

Tags

privacy,name change,protected access