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."

Comments

Re:Fuck yeah

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah! We have a right to use Google's services! For free! Fuck bandwidth and development costs -- they're a corporation!

I have no problem with how Google tracks me. Why shouldn't I get to make the tradeoff? Don't like their terms? Use another provider.

Re:Ridiculous

[tlhIngan]

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.

How?

Avoiding Google owned properties eliminates a good chunk of the 'net - and not just obvious ones like google search, gmail, picasa, youtube, etc. The +1 buttons are everywhere, google-owned ads are everywhere (and not just adsense, we're talking about doubleclick, admob and other google-owned ad companies). Plus they have CDNs and other things like google-analytics.

If google were to disappear tomorrow, the internet would end up horribly broken - many websites use google analytics on every link in order to track you.

Google has literally reached a point where they are too big to fail

Re:Fuck yeah

[toutankh]

Wrong link in my comment above, here is the correct one.