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Claude-Étienne Armingaud
Attorney at the Paris and New York Bars. My working notes on digital regulation, out in the open.
This is not a brochure. It is the public half of my Obsidian vault: the notes I actually use, day to day, to work on the GDPR, the EU AI Act including its consolidated version further to the Omnibus 2026, NIS2, DORA, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the EU Data Act and intellectual property.
Everything here is plain Markdown, structured and cross-linked. Read it in your browser, pull it into your own vault, or hand it to your AI assistant.
What you will find
Official texts. Regulations and directives broken down article by article, with stable anchors so you can cite and link to a precise provision instead of pointing at a 140-page PDF.
Case law and decisions. CNIL, CJEU, European authorities, French and foreign courts, analysed against a consistent grid: facts, legal basis, reasoning, practical takeaway.
Definitions. A working glossary of cross-cutting concepts, linked back to the texts and decisions that give them meaning.
Articles, publications and talks. What I write, and what I am about to say somewhere else.
How to use it
Read it. The notes are wired together: internal links, backlinks, a graph. You come in through an article and leave three definitions later, which is usually the right path.
Take it with you. Every page is a .md file. Copy what you need into your own Obsidian vault and the links and anchors will come along.
Let a machine read it. The content is built to be ingested as is by an LLM: no decorative markup, a clean heading hierarchy, explicit frontmatter metadata, stable block identifiers. If you are working through a compliance question with an AI assistant, point it here rather than letting it guess.
Who I am
I practise in Paris as a partner heading the Tech, Data & IP department at Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats. I am admitted to the Paris and New York Bars and hold the IAPP’s CIPP/E certification.
My interest in this field started with music, and continued through twenty years of watching the law chase technology without quite catching it. I work at the intersection of French civil law training and US common law practice, for American companies landing in Europe and European companies heading out.
In practice: data governance and compliance, technology contract negotiation, IP strategy, outsourced DPO work, and the litigation that shows up when none of the above was handled early enough.
Two caveats
This site is personal. The analyses are mine alone, do not necessarily reflect my firm’s position, and are not legal advice. Reading them creates no attorney-client relationship. For an actual situation, write to me.
Contact. clawdey@latournerie-wolfrom.com
Content
Articles & Publications
You’ll find my publications in the Articles and Events sections.