Google is sharing users’ personal data between its services without acquiring specific consent to do so, thus flagrantly breaching fundamental principles of European data protection law, one of its smaller rivals has claimed. In a new complaint submitted to the Irish data regulator, which oversees Google’s European business, Johnny Ryan, chief policy officer of the niche web browser Brave, accused the US tech company of operating an “internal data-free-for-all”. The complaint alleges that Google is taking users’ consent for certain uses of their personal data — for instance location tracking or YouTube history — and applying it to a range of other services that are completely invisible to them, a practice that is illegal under the General Data Protection Regulation. Read More...
Google is sharing users’ personal data between its services without acquiring specific consent to do so, thus flagrantly breaching fundamental principles of European data protection law, one of its smaller rivals has claimed. In a new complaint submitted to the Irish data regulator, which oversees Google’s European business, Johnny Ryan, chief policy officer of the niche web browser Brave, accused the US tech company of operating an “internal data-free-for-all”. The complaint alleges that Google is taking users’ consent for certain uses of their personal data — for instance location tracking or YouTube history — and applying it to a range of other services that are completely invisible to them, a practice that is illegal under the General Data Protection Regulation.
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