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Cybercriminalité vs RGPD et droit des données personnelles: Which Should You Read?

Two cybersecurity books on Policy, compared honestly: who each is for, what each does best, and which to read first.

Intermediate
3/52010
Cybercriminalité

Droit pénal appliqué

Myriam Quéméner, Yves Charpenel

A practitioner's treatment of cybercrime law — offences, procedure, and the application of criminal law to digital crime — by a French magistrate specialised in the field.

Intermediate
3/52021
RGPD et droit des données personnelles

Fabrice Mattatia

A complete French manual on data-protection law under the GDPR and the 2018 loi Informatique et Libertés — obligations, rights and how to comply — by an engineer and doctor of law.

Read this if

Lawyers, magistrates, compliance teams and investigators who need the legal framework around cybercrime: what's punishable, how procedure works, how the law is applied.
DPOs, developers, managers and students who need a clear, structured guide to GDPR obligations and French data-protection law in practice.

Skip this if

Technical readers wanting attacks or defence; this is a French-law legal text, and parts of any 2010 legal book are superseded by newer legislation.
Readers outside the EU legal context, or anyone wanting security technique; it's a legal-compliance manual, and law changes, so check the latest edition.

Key takeaways

  • A specialist legal reference on French cybercrime law, by a magistrate who works the field.
  • Covers the offences, procedure and application of criminal law to digital crime.
  • Law evolves: read for the framework and reasoning, but verify specifics against current legislation.
  • A clear, complete French manual on GDPR and data-protection law for non-lawyers.
  • Mattatia is both an engineer and a doctor of law, so it bridges technical and legal worlds.
  • Law evolves: use the most recent edition and verify against current CNIL guidance.

How they compare

Cybercriminalité and RGPD et droit des données personnelles are both rated 3/5 in our catalog. Pick by topic preference and reading style rather than by rating.

Both books target intermediate-level readers, so the choice is about topic, not difficulty.

Cybercriminalité and RGPD et droit des données personnelles both cover Policy, so reading them in sequence reinforces the same material from different angles.

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