Prism door continued: France asks Google to revise privacy policy

Beijing time, June 21, according to foreign media reports, the French data protection regulator National Information Freedom Commission (hereinafter referred to as "CNIL") on Thursday asked Google to modify its privacy policy, otherwise it will face fines, and thus the first in Europe to request Google Clarify their intentions and methods of collecting user data.

CNIL said that Google ’s privacy policy violates French law, and Google must make changes within three months, otherwise it will face a fine of up to 150,000 euros (approximately US $ 201,100). Two fines of 300,000 euros.

CNIL said similar investigation procedures are also underway in the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Overall, Google may face a fine of millions of euros. Since Google began implementing the new privacy policy in March 2012, CNIL has been leading European investigations into this new privacy policy.

CNIL President Isabelle Falque-PierroTIn said: "By the end of July, all EU data protection regulators will take mandatory measures against Google."

Privacy policy investigated

Last year, Google merged its 60 privacy policies into one, and began to integrate personal user data collected through its services such as YouTube, Gmail, and social network Google+, and users have no choice.

To this end, data protection regulators in some European countries launched a joint investigation until February this year to make recommendations to require Google to modify its privacy policy, but Google is indifferent. Google has repeatedly met with the personnel of these regulatory agencies, saying that the merged privacy policy is for users to more easily understand.

CNIL's move is regarded by legal experts and policy makers as a touchstone for whether Europe can influence the behavior of international Internet companies. The UK is still investigating whether Google has violated its laws and will soon send a letter to Google regarding its findings. Google said it will continue to cooperate with regulators in other countries such as France.

A Google spokesperson said: "Our privacy policy respects European laws, allowing us to provide simpler and more efficient services. We have been fully cooperating with relevant regulatory agencies in their investigations and will continue to work with them as always."

The timing is delicate

France is asking Google to revise its privacy policy at a delicate moment. Recently, the US National Security Agency was exposed to secretly collect user data through Google ’s nine largest Internet companies, including Google, to track individual behavior and contact. The exposure of the so-called "Prism" surveillance project has caused widespread concern and the US Congress' hearing on the scope of government information collection.

The European people and their leaders expressed their anger at their lack of legal rights to protect themselves from such surveillance. US President Barack Obama was also forced to defend the surveillance project for a long time at a press conference in Germany on Wednesday.

Perrotin said that the “Prism” surveillance scandal highlights the fact that there is an urgent need for greater transparency and the need to understand the protection of personal data. She said: "In the massive data collected by Google, people do not even realize that there is a lot of personal information. What we want to say to Google is that we want Google to disclose what it has done."

Two options

In April this year, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain launched national investigation procedures to investigate whether Google ’s privacy policy violated the laws of their respective countries.

The biggest concern in these countries is Google ’s method of integrating anonymous data. Google collects these anonymous data from users ’browsing history through its services to more effectively publish targeted advertisements. CNIL said on Thursday that Google ’s privacy policy is ambiguous and users cannot understand Google ’s intentions and methods of collecting their personal information.

Now there are two roads facing Google, either to negotiate with the regulatory agencies of these countries and modify the privacy policy, or to fight against them.

At present, such sanctions against Google cannot be implemented within the EU, and must be implemented separately by each country. However, the European Parliament is currently negotiating a draft data protection law. According to this draft, those who violate the draft may face a fine of up to 2% of their global annual revenue.

Privacy is not the only legal problem Google faces in Europe. At present, Google is still seeking to reconcile a three-year investigation with the antitrust regulator, this is a survey on whether Google squeezes out other competitors in search results. In addition, Belgium has launched a survey of Google ’s Android software to determine whether the software interferes with competition in its mobile phone market.

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