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Italy Investigates Google Over Alleged Unfair Data Consent Usage

by Ruth Nwokwu
11 months ago
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Italy’s competition watchdog announced Thursday that it had initiated an investigation into Google and its parent company Alphabet regarding potential “unfair commercial practices” associated with requests for user data consent sent to consumers.

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“The request for consent that Google submits to its users to the linking of the services offered may constitute a misleading and aggressive commercial practice,” the AGCM competition authority said in a statement.

“Indeed, it appears to be accompanied by inadequate, incomplete, and misleading information and it could influence the choice of whether and to what extent consent should be given,” it said.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The US tech giant requests consent from users to aggregate and use their personal data across its different services, including Google’s search engine, its Maps service and YouTube, among others.

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But, the consent request provides little or no clear information “as to the real effect that consent has on Google’s use of personal data of users,” the watchdog said.

It also accused Google of using “techniques and methods for requesting consent, and also for setting up the mechanisms for obtaining consent itself, which could condition the freedom of choice of the average consumer.”

In 2021, the watchdog imposed a fine of 10 million euros ($10.9 million) on both Google and its rival Apple for failing to provide enough information to users and resorting to “aggressive methods” in the use of their data for commercial purposes.

It said that neither company provided “clear and immediate information” on how user data was obtained and used.

The authority also hit Google with a fine of more than 100 million euros ($109 million) in May 2021 for abusing its dominant market position by shutting out a rival’s smartphone app for users of electric vehicles.


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