Precedent corpus / CNIL (France)
SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES
CNIL (France) case SAN-2025-001, decided . EUR 900k.
We have not checked whether this decision was appealed. This is not a statement that no appeal exists.
No ConsentMark grade rests on this decision. It is published here because it is relevant enforcement, not because it bears on what a browser does before consent.
What the regulator decided
Solocal Marketing Services carried out electronic prospecting campaigns directed at several million recipients without a freely- given, specific, informed and unambiguous consent for those communications, breaching Article L. 34-5 CPCE and Articles 6(1)(a) and 7 GDPR; the company also transferred the contacts to commercial partners without a documented legal basis for the onward processing.
Primary source
Regulator-owned URL. Quote this in legal briefs and academic citations.
https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000051630617Archived snapshot
Wayback Machine snapshot of the primary source. Use this when the regulator URL might be refactored or expire.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250520233425/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000051630617ConsentMark interpretation
Operator-readable note on how this case shapes the ConsentMark scanner narrative. Not a legal opinion; cites the primary source.
Data-broker precedent. Cite when the scanner narrative needs the principle that a data broker cannot rely on the consent collected by an upstream form without evidence the form satisfied the freely-given and specific limbs. Pairs with SAN-2023-009 (Criteo) for the upstream-consent-cannot-be-assumed point.
Verification trail
Checked against the primary source on 27th May 2026. Next review 27th November 2026.
Cite this case
@misc{consentmark-precedent-cnil-san-2025-001,
author = {{ConsentMark}},
year = {2025},
title = {CNIL (France) SAN-2025-001 - SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2025-001}},
note = {ConsentMark methodology v7.8.1}
}ConsentMark. (2025, May 15). CNIL (France) SAN-2025-001 - SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES. Methodology v7.8.1. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2025-001[CNIL (France) SAN-2025-001 - SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2025-001)CNIL (France) SAN-2025-001 - SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES - ConsentMark, 2025-05-15, methodology v7.8.1, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2025-001