SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES

CNIL (France) case SAN-2025-001, decided 2025-05-15. EUR 900,000.

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

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https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000051630617

Archived snapshot

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https://web.archive.org/web/20250520233425/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/CNILTEXT000051630617

ConsentMark 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

Verified by: donal
Verified at: 2026-05-27
Review due: 2026-11-27

Cite this case

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BibTeX

@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 v1.3}
}

APA

ConsentMark. (2025, May 15). CNIL (France) SAN-2025-001 - SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES. Methodology v1.3. https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2025-001

Markdown

[CNIL (France) SAN-2025-001 - SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES - ConsentMark](https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2025-001)

Plain text

CNIL (France) SAN-2025-001 - SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES - ConsentMark, 2025-05-15, methodology v1.3, https://www.consentmark.com/precedent/cnil-san-2025-001