Civil & Administrative

Name Change Requests (Protected Access)

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

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🇬🇧 English

This law keeps personal status and nationality records, such as name change requests, private by not allowing them to be indexed by search engines. Information can be accessed in a restricted way on a government website, ensuring privacy protections.

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Key Changes

  • Personal status and nationality records, including name changes, are not indexed by search engines
  • The records are accessible only through a protected government website
  • Ensures privacy and data protection compliance

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Do not publish individual acts relating to personal status and nationality in the French Official Journal (Journal officiel de la République française) unless conditions guarantee they are not indexed by search engines

French government authorities responsible for publishing official acts
prohibition
high

Implement technical measures to prevent search engine indexation of personal status and nationality acts published in the Official Journal

French government authorities managing the Official Journal publication system
operational
high

Ensure that acts concerning personal status and nationality are only accessible through restricted access on the Légifrance website

Légifrance website administrators and operators
operational
medium

Obtain prior opinion from the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) before implementing articles R. 221-15 and R. 221-16 regarding protected access conditions

French government authorities responsible for administrative relations with the public
reporting

Affected Parties

Individuals applying for name changesData privacy officers

Tags

privacy,data protection,name changes