Protected Access for Name Change Requests
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This measure keeps individual decisions about personal status and nationality, including name change requests, out of normal search engine indexing. The practical effect is privacy protection: these documents may still be available on Légifrance, but only through protected access designed to stop them from being easily searchable online.
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Key Changes
- Individual acts relating to personal status and nationality cannot be published in a way that allows search engine indexing.
- Name change-related documents are made available through protected access on Légifrance.
- The rule applies privacy safeguards recommended under the French public-administration code and CNIL consultation process.
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 prevent indexing by search engines.
Make affected individual acts relating to civil status and nationality available on Légifrance through protected access rather than normal publicly indexable access.