This single-speaker YouTube monologue warns business owners about the severe legal risks of collecting or storing medical data (especially vaccination status) outside of properly regulated medical contexts. The speaker recounts a British company’s near-miss—creating Excel/email records of employees’ vaccination dates—and explains why such practices trigger GDPR/DPO obligations, risk distribution to US servers/backups, and potential violation of French Public Health Code (quoted verbally as “article L11111 8”). The talk also criticizes President Macron’s policies rhetorically and repeatedly urges employers to avoid collecting medical data, consult legal counsel, and prefer in-person ephemeral checks rather than creating centralized electronic records.
Questions this video answers
"Public health code, article L11111 8" (as quoted by the speaker).
The GDPR (referred to also as "jdpr" in the speaker's English rendering).
Hello, my friends. I can't stop thinking about the legal mess that your President Macron has created for businesses. So you need to know one, there are laws on data protection, especially for extremely sensitive data. I'm not even talking about financial data. That sometimes falls under the pciss. I'm talking about medical data. In terms of personal data, medical data, there's nothing worse. You know, I could photocopy two prescriptions and email them to a random company. That would literally be an act of electronic terrorism, okay? Because there's no normal company that would want to have medical data on its servers, on its machines. Now, there are companies that are medical practices, clinics, hospitals, that keep this type of information, but they are professionals in this sector. They are covered. And in addition to being covered, they have experts who help them maintain this compliance, which is extremely difficult because imagine if during an audit, you discovered that you had this data. Imagine a computer is lost and you have to contact employees to say, I'm sorry, but there's medical data on it about you. Oh, that can go really far. Let me tell you a story about a British company that decided to check if its employees were vaccinated. So they did this. They took an Excel spreadsheet and put the first column, name, employee's name, column number two, vaccination, first vaccination date, column number three, vaccination two, date, comments, and so on. So they built an Excel spreadsheet and they were about to contact their employees to ask them about this specific point, their medical data. Fortunately, before taking action, they had the presence of mind to contact the data protection officer. Because you need to know that today, especially since the GDPR or the jdpr, as they say in English, which are European regulations. Each company that keeps data on European subjects, on European data subjects. So it's on individuals, if you like. Each of these companies must define what is called a data protection officer, who is accountable and who can answer questions about this data. I'll just give you a very simple example. You go into your store, there are surveillance cameras. If you look somewhere, there's a sign that says that the data from these cameras is captured by a particular company. And you have a phone number and an email address to contact them about this data. If you want to bother your super helpful, contact them and tell them, I would like to know what data you have on me, like video footage from my various visits to your store. You have the right to do so, but frankly, it would be very annoying if you did. There you go. But I'll just give it to you. In passing. So this company realized that this Excel file could be something catastrophic, especially since employees, for example, receive an email asking, what's your vaccination status? Most people don't like to answer about their medical data. People don't like to answer that. Now, if they feel that their job is threatened and that there's some kind of coercion to get this information, they can perhaps say, okay, for the sake of peace, here's the information. They can give the information in either direction. The thing is, if. If the guy or girl leaves the company in six months, three months, they can contact you and tell you through the recommended help and say, I would like to know how you store my medical data, what law you are under, what criteria you store it under, what protections you put in place. Can you share this data with me? And so on. And the person can really put you in a very difficult position. They can tell you, at the time I agreed to provide you with medical information in order to keep my job. Today, I realize that you are storing it illegally. I can file a complaint against you. Also, imagine that the computer is lost, that the data is stolen. Okay, so what did the company do? They knew they couldn't use this Excel file. So what did they say? They told employees, listen, next time you come to the company from afar. From afar, we don't want emails, we don't want photocopies, we don't want photos. We don't want anything at all. From afar, you show your vaccination card to your supervisor. You tell him, here's my vaccination card. And you keep your two meters away, please.
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That's what the supervisors in question did. He saw people coming and going. So you wait, you have the first one.
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You. Oh, you. You have both. Uh, you don't have any. So after a while, you know, he couldn't remember anymore. You already showed me your card. Yes, I showed it. Oh, really? I don't remember anymore. What did they start doing? Wait, wait. They started creating on their individual computers the famous files, Excel files that we didn't want to create in a centralized way. So they started writing these files, filling them out, and then what? Putting them in emails and sending them to our. The problem is that they go on exchange servers. Imagine that many companies like this company, have insurance, so they have an obligation that is auditable. So it's verified that they keep emails for five years. When the email is sent, it is on exchange servers, and it is also distributed on backup servers. So the data. An email containing medical data will end up everywhere. And that is extremely serious for a company whose usual job is not to keep medical documents. Do you see the thing? The email can end up on American servers. And when we store data because exchange very often on companies that have boxes, that have American branches and all that, it is often centralized somewhere in the world. The email servers in this specific case are centralized in the United States. The Excel files end up on an email server and backup servers located in the United States. So when you store medical data in the United States, you have to comply with the IPA standard, which is extremely restrictive and extremely difficult. You don't want to get caught. You don't want an audit. As a boss, your legal and financial responsibility is heavily engaged for eternity. If it is discovered that you are storing medical data like that in the wild, huh? In France, there is the. There is the. The Public health code, article L11111 8. There is what I mentioned, the GPRD or the JDPR. How to say, how to say in English and other laws. It would be a disaster. So why am I telling you this today? Because I just want to be the guy who calls for reason. So this company, they ended up telling their employees, please don't talk to us about vaccinations. We want. Don't hear about it, Please, please, not a word about it, okay? Because they have realized that it is a huge legal responsibility. Today, I am calling for reason. I am here to call for reason and to issue a warning. Because Macron, Macron, he is completely. He is completely deranged. He is in complete hysteria. But you have to think. Think about your interests. He will not always be there. If you want to know what Macron's power will be, what Macron's word will be worth once he has left power, I can give you a very simple example. What is Sarkozy's word worth today? At the time, Sarkozy could fire a journalist. By the way, Patrick Poivre d' Arvor paid the price for an offhand remark, for a look. You know, as they say in some cities, when Sarkozy spoke, Karcher's shares moved. You see? Where is Sarkozy today? What is his word worth? Sarkozy runs from court to court out of breath with his mask on, trying to face up to. I'm not a Sarcosist. Completely fanciful testimonies and bogus trials, right? Strictly speaking, the only act of kindness that can happen to him in a day is for a local police officer to recognize him and say, Mr. President, my wife and I Like you. Would you like a glass of water? A glass of water? Would you like me to make you a coffee? We have a machine over there in the foyer. You see what I mean? What is Hollande's word worth? No, but just to tell you, because the guy is leading you on, but the advisors aren't the ones paying you. See, I just want you to sleep soundly because I don't want you to ignore national, European, or even international regulations and one day find yourself having to deal with them. It could go far in court. It could take you back to court because you were convicted of illegal profiling for the purpose of discrimination, right? You can't even defend yourself by invoking good faith because you did it maliciously. There was malicious intent behind it. Then you're taken outside like that. And then you're all alone in the dark. And you hear yourself shouldering. Or he all alone. Oh, it won't go that far. No, no. It won't go that far. No, no. I know that some people were afraid of the bosses. No, no. What I can tell you. What I can tell you. Calm down, calm down, calm down. What I can tell you is, uh, go see your lawyers. Go see a legal advisor, okay? I'm not a lawyer. I'm not giving you advice here. But I'm making this video so you can sleep soundly, okay? If you're a boss, you have to be really careful, because if you push it and the guy shows you a phone, for example, you say, yeah, I can see it. Wait, are you really vaccinated? How long have you been vaccinated? Can I see your phone? This is really serious, my friends. This is really serious. It's like if you were to go into a computer system at home and this employee is pregnant, this one is taking the pill, this one is taking this brand of this brand of this drug and so on. This is really serious. You're getting yourself into a hell of a mess, my friends. Well, I'm talking for your own good. I'm a friend. I'm talking for your own good.
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Make it really serious.
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This could go really far. There you go. I'll leave you and sleep soundly.
