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pretty_name: >-
  French French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) Dataset
  Dataset
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - path: data/*parquet
        split: train
language:
  - fr
task_categories:
  - text-generation
  - text2text-generation
  - table-question-answering
  - summarization
  - text-retrieval
  - question-answering
  - text-classification
tags:
  - legal
  - text-generation
  - conditional-text-generation
  - french law
  - droit français
source_datasets:
  - original
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
license: mit

French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) Dataset (06/04/2025)

Dataset Description

The CNIL Dataset is a curated collection of documents from the French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/search/cnil). This dataset is sourced from DILA/OPENDATA/CNIL and provides detailed records of decisions and deliberations made by CNIL, which governs data privacy and personal data regulation in France. It serves as a rich resource for machine learning engineers interested in exploring regulatory texts, legal reasoning, and related applications in the legal domain.

Remarks:

With the Internal Identifier (id), the full text of the article is accessible at the following URL: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/cnil/id/[id]

Source Data

The data originates from the official DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative) platform through their open data initiative. The original data can be accessed at: CNIL DILA Open Data Platform.

Languages

French (fr)

Intended Uses & Limitations

Intended Uses

Legal text analysis and research
Natural Language Processing tasks on French legislative documents
Legal information retrieval systems
Analysis of French regulatory frameworks

Limitations

Limited to French legislative texts
Dependent on the structure of source Légifrance documents
Quality of text extraction depends on the consistency of source XML formatting

Data Splits

The dataset is provided as a single split without train/validation/test partitioning.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact

Improves accessibility to French legislative texts
Enables computational analysis of legal documents
Supports transparency in legal research

Legal Considerations

Usage should comply with Légifrance terms of service
Attribution should be provided to the original source
Users should verify the current validity of legal texts

Additional Information

Licensing Information

This dataset is released under the MIT License. Please refer to the license file for more details.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative) for making this data publicly available through their open data initiative.
The project La loi sous git of Tricoteuses

Citation Information

When using this dataset, please cite both:

The original DILA source (https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/)
This dataset processing implementation

Contributions

Contributions to improve the dataset processing can be made through the repository's issue tracker or pull requests.