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Bayer contests Monsanto's 'data controller' definition in French GDPR probe over lobbying campaign

By Matthew Newman ( July 28, 2021, 17:18 GMT | Insight) -- Bayer subsidiary Monsanto shouldn’t have been fined today by France’s Data Protection Authority as it wasn’t a “data controller” and so wasn't obliged to inform people that a consultancy had collected their contact data as part of a lobbying campaign for the company's Roundup weedkiller, Bayer has said. The CNIL fined Monsanto for two violations of the EU’s GDPR regarding Fleischman-Hillard’s processing of personal data for the "identification and mapping" of people who could influence the debate on Roundup.Bayer subsidiary Monsanto shouldn’t have been fined today by France’s Data Protection Authority as it wasn’t a “data controller” and so wasn't obliged to inform people that a consultancy had collected their contact data as part of a lobbying campaign for the company's Roundup weedkiller, Bayer has said....

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