Google France Forced to Display Privacy Violation Notice

[thisbymaster]

proud too be a European, almost makes me wish I was French. Google needs to be defamed for turning evil so rapidly, and it's monopoly dismantled. The average consumer has no idea what is going on behind the scenes and are very easily lulled into habits.

Complete bullshit, Google should have just gone dark in France for two days. Mainly because the privacy laws in Europe are completely nuts.

are you for real? you don't care about right to privacy?

Privacy is an illusion and is completely dead. No amount of whining, laws or fines can put this genie back in the bottle.

 

[razer17]

Google is also facing action in the UK, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands regarding its controversial privacy policies.

Oh come on, UK. After the whole GCHQ thing you can stop pretending you give a shit about my privacy. In fact, I'd probably rather that Google was checking my browsing than the government.

 

[Muspelheim]

This doesn't make any sense... Google is an American corporation so it stands above all laws.

Is of surely work of saboteurs, occupists and entitlers to topple glorious job creators. Law is for masses, to lead and of direct us. Is of not need for glorious Corporation.

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

proud too be a European, almost makes me wish I was French. Google needs to be defamed for turning evil so rapidly, and it's monopoly dismantled. The average consumer has no idea what is going on behind the scenes and are very easily lulled into habits.

Complete bullshit, Google should have just gone dark in France for two days. Mainly because the privacy laws in Europe are completely nuts.

are you for real? you don't care about right to privacy?

Privacy is an illusion and is completely dead. No amount of whining, laws or fines can put this genie back in the bottle.

Well, time for the standard reply. Please send me your name, address, and the kind of porn you like. You can PM it to me if you want; I promise I won't tell anyone!

 

[hickwarrior]

I wonder what kind of privacy violations google did... To the TOSR website.

 

[Olas]

I'd be happy about this, except the fine is pocket change for Google and message on the home page is only going to be seen by old/tech-illiterate people who don't realize they can just type directly into the address bar.

Google needs some REAL discipline.

 

[Sarge034]

My question is why is the notice only required for two days? If Google didn't change the policy would it not make more sense to require the notice at least until compliance?

 

[thisbymaster]

proud too be a European, almost makes me wish I was French. Google needs to be defamed for turning evil so rapidly, and it's monopoly dismantled. The average consumer has no idea what is going on behind the scenes and are very easily lulled into habits.

Complete bullshit, Google should have just gone dark in France for two days. Mainly because the privacy laws in Europe are completely nuts.

are you for real? you don't care about right to privacy?

Privacy is an illusion and is completely dead. No amount of whining, laws or fines can put this genie back in the bottle.

Well, time for the standard reply. Please send me your name, address, and the kind of porn you like. You can PM it to me if you want; I promise I won't tell anyone!

You mean all publicly available data? Why bother, go use google for awhile and you will find it all out. Or you could use the yellow pages if you are old.

 

[Dogstile]

To be honest, I don't see this having that much of an effect. I can't remember the last time I went to the Google home page, I just open a new tab and type my search term into the address bar when I need to Google something

Where I work, if someone wants to google something they still type in google.com first. Old habits die hard i guess

 

[Roxor]

150k Euros as the maximum possible fine for breach of privacy? That might be reasonable if you're fining an individual who makes 50k a year, but it's nothing for a company like Google.

Change the law so it's three times the guilty party's annual income and we might actually see some results.

 

[Mooboo Magoo]

Meh, I don't really see the big deal about all the privacy hooplaw. I like that Google keeps track of my information because that is the only real way Google can offer a better product / service.

As for the notice I don't think it is going to do much good. With a good enough lawyer Google could probably sue France for it. It is pretty well documented that one of the reason's for Google's success has been the simplicity of the homepage. Or at least it is pretty well documented that Google believes that to be the case. Now I don't know about whether or not this notice thing is standard practice for a website to do if they violate privacy laws, but if it is not standard and Google can prove they didn't make as much money as normal on those days they could have a case (again, you'd need a damn good lawyer which I'm sure Google can afford).

But like I said, I don't think the notice is going to do anything so this is all kind of moot.

 

[Strazdas]

150k Euros as the maximum possible fine for breach of privacy? That might be reasonable if you're fining an individual who makes 50k a year, but it's nothing for a company like Google.

Change the law so it's three times the guilty party's annual income and we might actually see some results.

sad reality is - they wont change. there was a company here that sold plastic food bags. turns out, they were made our of poisonous plastic and would contamiante any warm food they came in contact with (it would literally melt-leak into food). the company was told to stop, they didnt. so they got fined. paid fine and didnt stop. they got fined 3 times, after that they made a sale and still sold all of the bags. later in the interview when asked why they didnt stop selling them and kept getting fined they said it was more profitable for them to pay the fine than pull the product.
meanwhile, you get to pay 20.000 dollars for every song you download/watch on youtube, becaus copyright is obviuosly more important than health hazzard.

Where I work, if someone wants to google something they still type in google.com first. Old habits die hard i guess

sad but true to a lot of people. there is also the thing that this doesnt actually work on IE which a lot of people sadly still use.
There are even worse offenders though, i remember i asked people to download something and gave them the exactly link to a file hosted. so instead of typing it to adress bar they typed it into google and complained that they cant find it since google didnt index the link that was only few hours old. i had to tell that person to type it in adress bar on 4 seperate occasions till she finally got it.

Complete bullshit, Google should have just gone dark in France for two days. Mainly because the privacy laws in Europe are completely nuts.

google would then be fined for the riots that ensue during that time.

proud too be a European, almost makes me wish I was French. Google needs to be defamed for turning evil so rapidly, and it's monopoly dismantled. The average consumer has no idea what is going on behind the scenes and are very easily lulled into habits.

You dont want to be the hypocrite french that does this on one day and then passes laws that allows the government to legally install spyware in every computer in france to ensure they dont "have sensitive material".

If a people magazine is condemned for invasion of privacy of a celebrity, they have to display a full page in their next edition to state so. It's good on paper, but unfortunately in reality people don't seem to care an continue to buy the magazine

Maybe they continue to buy the magazine because it was the celebrity's private life that attracted them there in the first place?

 

[Dogstile]

Where I work, if someone wants to google something they still type in google.com first. Old habits die hard i guess

sad but true to a lot of people. there is also the thing that this doesnt actually work on IE which a lot of people sadly still use.
There are even worse offenders though, i remember i asked people to download something and gave them the exactly link to a file hosted. so instead of typing it to adress bar they typed it into google and complained that they cant find it since google didnt index the link that was only few hours old. i had to tell that person to type it in adress bar on 4 seperate occasions till she finally got it.

You're a fellow "IT" guy aren't you? That story alone describes my day.

 

[deadish]

Complete bullshit, Google should have just gone dark in France for two days. Mainly because the privacy laws in Europe are completely nuts.

Go ahead I will say. We are fortunate Google isn't the only game in town. Yahoo! and Bing works decently for most things. No one is going to lose any sleep.

 

[thewatergamer]

Don't see much changing as far as google goes... since when has google done anything that people actually asked for

but that said GO FRANCE GO!