The AEPD sanctions the American technology giant for two “very serious” infractions, including not respecting the users’ right to be forgotten
Vodafone Spain is also obliged to pay 3.9 million euros for violating the law by not guaranteeing the security and confidentiality of its customers’ data
Google He has given data of its users to third parties without legal permission and has hindered their right to be forgotten. Both infractions, considered “very serious”, have led the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) to impose a penalty fee record to the American technological giant of 10 million euros.
The highest sanction that the agency has issued to date is due to Google violating articles 6 and 17 of the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European regulation that defends the Privacy of users in Internet. The Lumen Project is an initiative that collects requests from those users who ask the company to remove content from its popular search engine.
The AEPD has detected that Google forces users to give up their identification, email address, the reasons for their request and the claimed URL address and that it sends this data to the project for it to manage. All this without any consent.
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In its resolution, announced this Wednesday, the AEPD points out that the decision to transfer this personal data to third parties “means in practice to frustrate the purpose of exercising the right of deletion.” Also know as right to be forgottenthis guarantees citizens to be able to request the deletion, blocking or de-indexation (that it does not appear in the Google search engine, come on) certain information that may violate their right to honour, image or privacy.
Vodafone fined
In addition, the AEPD has imposed another fine of 3.9 million euros on the company Vodafone Spain for violating articles 5.1 and 5.2 of the RGPD and not ensuring the level of security and confidentiality necessary for a client.