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France Guidance Guidance

CNIL AI how-to sheets

CNIL recommendations on the development of AI systems and the GDPR (AI how-to sheets)

A series of practical guidance sheets, first published in 2024 and extended since, explaining how organisations can develop and train AI systems in compliance with the GDPR: defining a purpose, choosing a legal basis (including legitimate interest for web-scraped training data), data minimisation, retention, data-protection impact assessments, informing people and honouring their rights, and security of training datasets and models.

Adopted 8 Apr 2024 Verified (reviewed by Bhaskar Bhatt; a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Official source
France National strategy Adopted

National AI strategy

Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (National AI Strategy, phases 1–3, 2018–2025)

Launched in March 2018 following the Villani report, the national AI strategy funds research institutes (3IA then AI clusters), talent, compute and business adoption. The second phase (2021) focused on training and diffusion into the economy; the third phase (2024–2025) emphasises sovereign generative-AI models, compute and public-sector use, and framed France's hosting of the AI Action Summit in February 2025.

Adopted 29 Mar 2018 Verified (reviewed by Bhaskar Bhatt; a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Official source

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