The Association of Financial Users (ASUFIN) has reported to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) that Google is deliberately violating the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD), a European regulation that protects users against the uses that companies can make of your data.
Google is one of the largest companies in the world and in particular. Their email service, Gmail, is used by practically any user with an Internet connection.
Therefore, this platform must comply with the regulations responsible for protecting personal data.
But as ASUFIN denounces, Google is not complying with it and is taking advantage of its predominant position in the market to commit infractions (according to this body) with the process of providing consent for the processing of personal data of these people to open an account in Gmail.
“We urge the Spanish body that ensures compliance with this regulation to consider the facts and to impose, where appropriate, proportionate and effective fines.
Taking into account the potentially affected consumers, which are all users of bank accounts. Mail from Google “can be read in the statement.
This is because the European regulation on which this complaint is based urges the procedure offered by these services.
Apart from being the easiest and fastest, it must offer the “greatest protection of the data provided by the user, the least invasive treatment and the least temporary retention of data”. Something that Google does not comply with.
When creating a Gmail account, users have to consent almost unlimitedly to processing all their personal information, with which Google then makes advertising profiles so that specific ads and recommendations reach you.
The problem is that there is no direct way to deny this consent. Doing so is a slow process plagued by language that is difficult to understand and incomplete information that often makes users give up and give permission for the treatment of data when they would prefer to set limits.
AUSTIN ends its complaint by saying, “The procedure is not transparent and supposes an excessive treatment for the purposes pursued by the user: to open and manage a mere email account.” We will see how this process ends.
