Appointed at the beginning of this year, Marie-Laure Denis brings a wealth of experience to her new role as head of France's data protection authority, the CNIL. She has been deputy director for the Office of the Mayor and then spent several years in various government ministries and commissions. Two months into her role, Denis talked to The Privacy Advisor about her priorities as head of the CNIL and what to expect from the regulator, which, like its counterparts, has been flooded with complaints in record numbers since the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into force. But that doesn't mean the regulator is backing off. "Almost one year after the implementation of the GDPR, the transition or tolerance period is now over," Denis said. 
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