Protected access for name change notices
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This measure keeps certain personal government notices, including name change matters, out of search engine results. Individual acts about a person’s civil status or nationality may appear in the French Official Journal only if they are protected against search engine indexing. The practical effect is privacy protection. People affected by name change, civil status, or nationality decisions can still find the acts on Légifrance, but access is limited through a protected-access system rather than open web search.
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Key Changes
- Individual acts about civil status and nationality must be protected from search engine indexing when published
- Name change-related notices are made available through protected access on Légifrance
- Public access remains possible, but ordinary search engines should not surface these personal records
Obligations
What this law requires
Do not publish individual acts relating to a person's civil status or nationality in the Journal officiel de la République française unless the publication conditions guarantee that the acts will not be indexed by search engines.
Make the affected individual civil-status and nationality acts available on the Légifrance website through the protected-access system rather than through openly indexable web access.