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French Officials Say EU Will Sanction Google Over Privacy
taz346 writes "French officials said on Monday that the EU intends to sanction Google after the Internet search giant failed to respond to concerns about its privacy policy. 'At the end of a four-month delay accorded to Google to comply with the European data protection directive and to implement effectively (our) recommendations, no answer has been given,' said France's CNIL data protection agency. Google's new policy, implemented in March 2012, allows it to track users over multiple sites. Users who sign in to Google services cannot opt out. CNIL said a working group would meet next week to begin work on 'coercive actions which should be implemented before the summer' against Google."
Trying to protect its citizens' privacy!
Eat it up, Fandroids. They're stealing your data for their profits!!!
Google has a large legal team, so I assume not responding is deliberate, rather than because they forgot or just couldn't think of what to respond with.
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Our government works for us, not the corporations who want to turn our private lives into profit.
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is to purchase the EU and destroy all their Apple and Microsoft products , then the rest of the world is next!
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
Google just closing up shop in EU countries.. no more buildings owned or leased by Google and no more people employed by Google in the EU....
there are plenty other areas of the world to direct those resources towards.
The EU is funding INDECT which will have automated scanning of all online communications.
But it will obviously only be used for detecting "child pornography" and "organ trafficking".
As in, you search through the online communications and profiles of every citizen in the EU to detect and expose organ trafficking, the major issue facing the EU right now.
So I'm curious, what other possible sanctions can they impose on Google? Clearly they'll begin with some sort of fine, but are there other actions that they may take, and if so, what?
Seriously, EU, you should go after PayPal first. They are doing whatever the fuck they want over here.
Shouldn't this have been a matter to be brough before the World Trade Federation?
or paypal the unregulated bank?
This is perhaps the single most stupid thing I've read on this topic. You admit to being an avid user of Google's services, yet you object to the "price" that they offer those services for. When you go to the grocery store, if you don't like the price of milk, do you demand that the government make the store give it to you for free?
Don't want to agree to Google's terms of use? I have a perfect solution for you - use somebody else's services.
Oh, and you're on the internet. Good luck with that fantasy of keeping your data under your absolute control...
Life needs more saving throws.
are beginning to annoy me..
No one is forced to use Google. If you don't want them to do things with your data, don't give it to them.
There are a number of ways that you can make sure you don't use any google services while still using the web.
I don't remember them all, but I am sure APK could help you.
You don't like Europeans terms... well, you don't have to do business in Europe. It has been shown that if Google goes away other search engines flourish (although there is a the democracy discrepancy in the case study).
I wonder what would happen if Google just turned a country off. Just boom, no Google for you. No Google, no Gmail, no Youtube. I wonder if it'd make a noticeable impact on a GNP. Of course, Youtube and Google's other functionality might balance themselves out in terms of productivity gained or lost, so it might be a wash. At least, once the rioting quieted down.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
As we see it, this experiment confirms our suspicion that Bing is using some combination of:
* Internet Explorer 8, which can send data to Microsoft via its Suggested Sites feature
* the Bing Toolbar, which can send data via Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program link
There are a number of ways that you can make sure you don't use any google services while still using the web.
Not reasonably so. Such regulations, should they be warranted, aren't to protect the small portion of people who *can* skirt Google, but for the vast majority of people who *can't*.
I don't remember them all, but I am sure APK could help you.
I've long since given up giving a shit, mostly because there's nothing you can do about it beyond being some sort of nerd hermit like Stallman. Fuck that.
But some sort of regulatory oversight might be able to give me (and billions of others) back some of my privacy. I can't see how that's a bad thing. No one's talking about shutting Google down.
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All they want is money out of Google. They can't tax the "services" that are provided, so they'll some how figure out how to extort money. I don't discount their arguments however this is France talking, not the EU, so I'd like to see what the EU bureacracy has to say about the Privacy concerns with Google services. Strange though, I don't see them going after Facebook yet... woops, they already have. http://marketingland.com/france-wants-to-tax-facebook-google-personal-data-collection-31196
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Hey, that's a nice patent/copyright portfolio you got there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it...
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They find ways to make billions of dollars off of foreign companies. I bet all of you my hat, big record penalties are going to be imposed. Just in time to fund some bailouts (how lucky!)
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The French don't care about Google. I'm pretty sure they all use Yandex.ru !!!
In Soviet Russia, Dot SAP Providers use you !!!
THIS.
If you care so much about protecting you privacy online (not saying there's anything wrong with that), then how about, I don't know, NOT putting any private data online! AT ALL. Seriously, once its out there you will never get it back AND you have NO IDEA how even has it anymore. If you want to maintain tight control over your data, and you are putting it online, then YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG to begin with.
And no, google is not "too big to fail" either. There is clearly a marketplace for its services, so if they could somehow manage. To bungle things up and collapse, then guess what? Big fucking deal, life goes on, and so will the internet, which did manage to exist before google, btw.
ALL the big software and hardware companies need to just not sell in the EU - tell the EU to go f themselves. The EU is fixing their economic shortfalls by "fining" everything for huge money.
Are you telling me you've never been annoyed at the price of things like petrol? electricity? gas? water?
Seriously?
You're either completely clueless or joking. The maximum amount they can impose in this case isn't even a dihydrogen monoxide molecule in the Atlantic. It might barely be enough to pay for one low-level EU bureaucrat for half a year.
The Microsoft case was totally different, it was a violation of trade laws, not privacy laws. And just for the record, the EU hasn't engaged in any US style corporate bailouts. The "bailout" in the EU is about public spending in Greece effectively getting so out of hand that the Greek state was about to go bankrupt.
If the store where I buy my milk breaks the law, I would expect them to be punished and fined. This has nothing to do what I think of the price of their milk or if I even buy at that store.
Google is breaking the law. They should get out and stop doing business even with those who are willing to do business with them until they stop breaking the law.
Even if I have a contract with them and I am completely agree with what they do with my data, they STILL are breaking the law.
Now you can think that the law is stupid. Or you can think that the law is unjust. That still does not change the fact that they are breaking the law.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
"--if you don't like the price of milk, do you demand that the government make the store give it to you for free?--"
Yes. Its called Food Stamps.