Dailymotion is a video-hosting and streaming platform whose privacy policy identifies the legal operator as 'Dailymotion SA' (EEA users) or 'Dailymotion Inc.' (non-EEA users), and states operations involve cooperation among companies belonging to the 'Dailymotion group,' some outside the EEA. Its policy discloses an ad-funded model with content and ads measurement processed under legitimate interest, cookie-based tracking capped at a 13-month lifespan with a cookie-management control panel, and account deletion that retains some data where legally required. Wikidata's registry entry for Dailymotion lists Vivendi as its parent organization (P749); this was not independently corroborated on Vivendi's or Canal+ Group's own pages within this research's fetch budget, and is flagged for the reviewer given Canal+ Group's December 2024 demerger from Vivendi and London listing, which may have changed which entity holds Dailymotion. No breach disclosure, regulator action, or named-firm security audit was found in this research at draft time.
TRACK RECORD
1 BREACH
[2016-10-20] · BREACH
Have I Been Pwned lists a breach record for Dailymotion: "Dailymotion".
Approximately 85,176,234 accounts affected, per HIBP.
Dailymotion's privacy policy states it relies on legitimate interest to process personal data for content measurement, ads measurement, and service/audience analysis and improvement, and that after account deletion it will still retain some data where required by applicable law or contracts.
Wikidata's registry entry for Dailymotion (Q769222) lists a 'parent organization' (property P749) value of Vivendi (Q1127887); this community-maintained registry claim was not independently corroborated on Vivendi's or Canal+ Group's own corporate pages within this research's fetch budget, and predates or may not reflect Canal+ Group's December 2024 demerger from Vivendi.
Dailymotion's privacy policy states that within the EEA, references to 'Dailymotion' refer to 'Dailymotion SA,' and outside the EEA refer to 'Dailymotion Inc.,' and that operation of the Service involves cooperation of all companies belonging to the 'Dailymotion group,' some located outside the EEA.
The privacy policy states that Dailymotion relies on its own and advertisers' legitimate interest to process ads-measurement data, explaining that advertisers pay to have ads shown on the Service and want to know whether their ads are watched and effective.
Dailymotion's privacy policy states it has 'an obligation to implement adequate security measures that, without warranting absence of breaches, protect processed data' as a matter of legal compliance; no breach disclosure, regulator action, or independent security audit was found from a primary source in this research at draft time.
Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog lists the "Dailymotion" incident (dailymotion.com), breach date 2016-10-20, affecting approximately 85,176,234 accounts. Data classes exposed per HIBP: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames. Source: Have I Been Pwned (haveibeenpwned.com), CC BY 4.0.
The privacy policy states Dailymotion uses both session cookies and persistent cookies to offer the service, better understand user interaction with the Dailymotion Service or with marketing material advertising it outside the Service, and to monitor performance, with cookie lifespans generally not exceeding 13 months; the same policy discloses that if a user logs in via a third-party service such as Google, Dailymotion does not store the user's password and the user may be sharing activity information with that third party.