Alexander Hanff
In what can only be seen as Alphabet's blatant refusal to obey EU law, it was announced over the weekend that they would introduce Bard to Android Messages App and intercept all messages (past and future) for the purpose of training it - in breach of EU's rules on interception of communications under Article 5(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC.
To make it worse Alphabet know this is illegal after they were caught intercepting WiFi communications in 2010 with their Streetview cars.
Alexander Hanff
As such, today, I filed an open letter complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission calling for an immediate global ban on Alphabet's plans in order to protect the confidentially of hundreds of billions of private communications.
Sadly I cannot post the letter here as my Mastodon instance doesn't allow for pdf attachments, but you can read it here:
Erik Jonker
@thatprivacyguy ...is it really going live in the EU, i thought it's more like they just start only in the US? (like they did with Bard itself)
Alexander Hanff
@ErikJonker it doesn't matter where it rolls out, EU persons communicate with people outside of the EU all the time, which is why I have called on the DPC to issue a global ban, because even in jurisdictions where all party consent is not required (such as jurisdictions which only require single party consent) Eu persons messages will be intercepted and as such their rights will still be subject to a breach.
Aral Balkan
@thatprivacyguy @eu_edpb @echo_pbreyer @EDPS @euractiv_politics Did you hear the joke about the Irish DPC? The Irish DPC. That’s it. That’s the joke.
Børge
@thatprivacyguy I've been wondering when these tech giants will be so large that they don't care about following the law at all. If they are fined and don't pay, or ordered to do something and don't comply, what are the countries going to do about it?
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