The Guarantor: "They know too much about us even political ideas and sexual tastes" - The Republic

“Officially exploit the information for commercial purposes, but who can not be excluded that they use them for other purposes?”
FABIO TONACCI

ROME – “This time we go all the way, Google should give us real answers, not evasive. Must give us guarantees on how to defend your privacy. If he does not, you’re European states, including the ‘Italy, will say to the 500 million EU consumers that Google does not protect their personal data. I do not think that the Californian company can afford it. ” Antonello Soro, president of the data protection commissioner for a year, he became convinced that the battle to be won is that the transparency of the giants of the web. Google, but also Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple. “We are not Luddites opposed to technological innovation, it is clear. But something has to change.” What have you asked the manager for Google?
“First of all, an exhaustive list and updated products and services offered by the company in Mountain View. We asked about how it treats data collected, if and how they are crossed to profile users, the purposes for which they use them, the time of retention of data processed. And also the measures taken to ensure the exercise of rights. When a user deletes their account, what happens to the data? And it can choose not to be profiled? We expect precise answers “

the extent to which Google has teamed up with you, so far?
“A little. perplexity At European Data Protection responds by saying to respect the principles of legal systems,

Instead, follow the American rules alone. So much so that we can not do inspections on their servers. When he worked to remove the content, it did almost “spirit of courtesy,” not because they felt forced. “ What provisions of our Code of privacy seem to have violated the
“Google has recently adopted a new privacy policy, with opaque disclosure, in which he explains too broadly to cross all the data it collects with gmail, search engine, google +, Android and other services to create the profiles. And that’s not good. The data processing can be done for a precise, even commercial. But Google has whole pieces of our lives know what we like, where we go on vacation, where we are, our political orientation and our sex ual tastes, what we look for on the Internet, who are our contacts. And the account associated with the profile a name and a surname, without users being aware of it. This is our legal system prohibits it. Just as it is a violation not know what servers are stored in our data. “

What do they do with these profiles, you were able to figure it out?
” Officially them use for publicity purposes and commercial, but what real guarantees do we have that are not used for other purposes? Google is now an economic power that communicates with the heads of state. In China, for example, we understand that you have put my head down and worked with the Chinese authorities. The mass of data on citizens’ political orientations after by everyone, of course. “

If you do not respond by June 30, the deadline set by you, what will happen?
“We open a procedure that could lead to a sanction millionaire. The mo ney for Google are certainly not a problem, in fact the real sanction would be the loss of confidence by consumers. A wound to privacy means limiting the freedom of all. “