Clarity call on French whistleblowing rules

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has called on the French government’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) data protection authority to clarify guidelines on corporate whistleblowing. The Paris-based business organisation was concerned this year when the authority blocked the whistleblowing hotline plans of two multinationals. The ICC welcomed new CNIL guidelines on such systems, but criticised its recommendation that whistle-blowing should only be “a secondary option”. The ICC said: “reporting routes should be made available…at the same level.”