Privacy: Google imposed its new rules to the CNIL

Contrary to Google France, the CNIL has not been informed several weeks in advance of the new rules of confidentiality but only two days before the official announcement. Other European CNIL has also been a fait accompli.



Following the request made by the Group of 29 to ask Google to suspend the entry into force of its new rules of confidentiality laid on March 1, the U.S. giant said to have "informed the majority of stakeholders in the weeks preceding our announcement. During this period, none of them expressed any significant concerns. ".



CNIL, charged by the Group of 29 to review the new rules, has a somewhat different version.



The text sent by Google within hours presentation



ZDNet.fr met this morning with Gwendal le Grand, head of IT expertise of the CNIL, which explains that Google has actually held a meeting to discuss these new rules, but only two days before the official announcement.



"The new policy was announced Tuesday, January 24 and we met with Google on the previous Friday. We asked to see the text but it was transmitted to us until the following Monday, just hours before his presentation, "said the representative of the CNIL, which states that" Google does not ask us to validate the text. "



According Gwendal Le Grand, other data protection authorities of EU member countries have experienced the same situation and some have flatly denied access to the text. We were able to confirm this with the CNIL Dutch (DPA) led by Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the G 29 and author of the letter sent to Google.



Some protection authorities in Europe uninformed



"The Group of 29 commissioned by the CNIL in this investigation because of our experience in cases involving Google, such as data-bound WiFi. We will analyze the text in detail, share with Google. It will take time and take us beyond the March 1, hence the request to Google for your patience. "



Google has agreed to cooperate with the G 29 and the CNIL but seems unwilling to postpone the application of its new privacy policy. "I do not know yet how the G 29 will react to this," acknowledged Gwendal Le Grand.