Hearing a complaint against Clubhouse, the CNIL on Wednesday launched investigations to verify the compliance of this new social network with the regulations in force on personal data.

The Cnil, French gendarme of personal data, has opened an investigation into how the social network Clubhouse uses the private information of its users, she announced in a statement on Wednesday.

"The investigation should make it possible to confirm" if the European legislation on data protection (RGPD) "is applicable to the company and to determine if [it] is unrecognized" specified the CNIL, explaining that in case of no respect, it could "if necessary, make use of its own repressive powers".

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