Brave Browser Delivers on Promise, Files GDPR Complaint Against Google

guest · Mar 17, 2020

Brave Browser Delivers on Promise, Files GDPR Complaint Against Google
March 16, 2020
https://cointelegraph.com/news/brave-browser-delivers-on-promise-files-gdpr-complaint-against-google

Earlier today, March 16, Brave filed a formal complaint against Google with the lead General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcer in Europe.

In a February Cointelegraph interview, Dr. Johnny Ryan, Brave’s chief policy and industry relations officer, explained that Google is abusing its power by sharing user data collected by dozens of its distinct services, creating a “free for all” data warehouse. According to Ryan, this was a clear violation of the GDPR.
Aggravated with the situation and the lack of enforcement against the giant, Ryan promised to take Google to court if things don’t change for the better.
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Google is a “black box”
Dr. Ryan has spent six months trying to elicit a response from Google to a basic question: “What do you do with my data?” to no avail.

Alongside the complaint, Brave released a study called “Inside the Black Box”, that:

“Examines a diverse set of documents written for Google’s business clients, technology partners, developers, lawmakers, and users. It reveals that Google collects personal data from integrations with websites, apps, and operating systems, for hundreds ill-defined processing purposes.”
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Brave: Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

Brave has filed a formal GDPR complaint against Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle. Enforcement would be tantamount to a functional separation of Google’s business
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Inside the black box: a glimpse of Google’s internal data free-for-all (PDF - 1.18 MB):
https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Inside-the-Black-Box.pdf

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