France's data protection authority, the CNIL, has announced it has closed a formal notice procedure placed on a connected toy company. Last November, after it was alerted by a consumer association about a lack of security protections in two connected toys, the CNIL sent a questionnaire to Hong Kong–based Genesis Industries Limited, as well as a request to conduct online inspections. According to Friday's announcement, the company "has dealt with several of the issues raised in the formal notice," and "further controls were carried out by the CNIL in order to verify the assertions made by the company." The DPA has concluded use of the toys no longer processes data under the scope of France's Data Protection Act and has "therefore closed the formal notice procedure."
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