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Google Analytics: the OIP calls on the French government to support the transition to European solutions

Google Analytics: the OIP calls on the French government to support the transition to European solutions

The Open Internet Project (OIP) welcomes the CNIL’s requirement to stop using the Google Analytics audience measurement solution due to the transfer of personal data to the United States, and welcomes that solutions European alternatives that are victims of abuse of a dominant position can thus gain visibility and develop.

Since the CNIL’s legal argument is valid for many other American digital tools, the association calls on public authorities to seize this opportunity to help data controllers identify alternative European solutions, and to support the transition to solutions. sovereigns respectful of European law.

The CNIL’s decision to prohibit the use of Google Analytics is a direct consequence of the “Schrems II” judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of July 16, 2020. It allows the authority France to remind firmly that in the European digital space, it is not optional to respect European law. The CNIL makes it clear that this right is unfortunately constantly violated when players export personal data from Europeans to the USA despite the cancellation of the Privacy Shield, which itself followed the cancellation of Safe Harbor. It therefore recalls the paramount importance of identifying, adopting and developing European alternatives which avoid such illicit transfers.

As the judicial authorities have pointed out several times, the legal system of the United States is not sufficiently protective of the rights of European Internet users and the security of their data. It is everyone’s responsibility to protect this data. The relentless analysis of the CNIL concerning the use of Google Analytics will therefore apply with the same effects for a whole series of non-European tools and services used most often under the effect of dominant positions that sit on illegal behavior.

The CNIL’s decision to require the use of solutions other than Google Analytics, and to no longer export personal data to the United States, is therefore an important opportunity that European public authorities and entrepreneurs must seize together to adopt , promote and build solutions that strengthen European strategic autonomy in the digital space. These solutions exist in terms of audience analysis as in many other technological fields, and other solutions will emerge and develop. Entrepreneurs are doing their part, and the State must develop an active strategy to help the emergence of these European solutions and promote their visibility and adoption with a support plan for the transition.

"This decision, based on an indisputable legal argument, must lead us collectively to offer better listening and visibility to the European solutions that already exist, which suffer from lawless practices that completely unbalance the market. The State cannot only wield the stick, and must therefore also help European alternatives to make themselves known, and help companies to adopt them. The OIP will ask the competent public authorities in the coming weeks to structure this support plan."
Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, OIP General Delegate
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Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, General Delegate : +33607315126 –  l.k@openinternetproject.eu

Anaïs Strauss, Adviser :+33757503010 – anais.strauss@openinternetproject.eu

26, rue de l’Université • 75007 Paris
+33 (0)1 53 45 91 91

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The Open Internet Project challenges the candidates for the french presidential election

The Open Internet Project challenges the candidates for the french presidential election

With 60 days to go before the first round of the presidential election, the Open Internet Project (OIP), a European association of organizations and European digital industrialists, calls on all the candidates for the presidential election on the digital sites which must quickly evolve so that the Internet giants – mostly foreign – stop abusing their ultra-dominant positions, and so that a truly sovereign digital industry emerges.

OIP interpelle les candidats présidentielle 2022

Indeed, the vitiated effect of the overpowering of GAFAM, which respects neither our laws nor our institutions, and whose place continues to gain in importance, both in our economy and in our democratic and social life, is revealed everywhere: tax evasion, financing of conspiratorial sites, capture of personal and highly strategic data, looting of our cultural heritage,…

« The DMA agreement is a significant step forward, which we welcome. Thanks to this new regulation, the European rules governing GAFAM will be much stricter, in particular with the recognition of the notion of gatekeeper, and will allow European alternative solutions – often the very first victims of anti-competitive practices – to develop under more favorable conditions ! »
emphasizes Leonidas Kalogeropoulos
General Delegate

The OIP wishes to know the position of the candidates on the following proposals:

  1. The public order must have a structuring effect on the organization of alternative solutions to GAFAM;
  2. Sanctions imposed must be subject to judicial publication for 30 days on the websites of convicted actors;
  3. Possibility of interrupting access to the sentenced service in the event of a repeat offence;
  4. Legislative framework for digital advertising market share and audience share to be aligned;
  5. Creation of an observatory completely independent of the financing of conspiratorial and parasitic sites;
  6. Creation of a full-fledged Digital Ministry and permanent parliamentary committees in the two Assemblies;
  7. Reform of the public procurement code so that free digital offers no longer make it possible to escape competitive bidding procedures;
  8. Support of European digital solutions by public and private funds with strong diplomatic support to offer and promote these solutions to all countries – the “digital non-aligned” – wishing to opt for services respectful of European data and values.

Contacts:

Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, General Delegate : +33607315126 –  l.k@openinternetproject.eu

Anaïs Strauss, Adviser :+33757503010 – anais.strauss@openinternetproject.eu

26, rue de l’Université • 75007 Paris
+33 (0)1 53 45 91 91

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The OIP challenges the candidates for the presidential election so that a truly sovereign digital industry emerges in France and in Europe

OIP challenges the candidates for the french presidential election so that a truly sovereign digital industry emerges in France and in Europe.

With 60 days to go before the first round of the presidential election, the Open Internet Project (OIP), a European association of organizations and European digital industrialists, calls on all the candidates for the presidential election on the digital sites which must quickly evolve so that the Internet giants – mostly foreign – stop abusing their ultra-dominant positions, and so that a truly sovereign digital industry emerges.

Lettre ouverte OIP candidats élections

Indeed, the vitiated effect of the overpowering of GAFAM, which respects neither our laws nor our institutions, and whose place continues to gain in importance, both in our economy and in our democratic and social life, is revealed everywhere: tax evasion, financing of conspiratorial sites, capture of personal and highly strategic data, looting of our cultural heritage,…

« Faced with such an accumulation of highly reprehensible behavior, and a list of sanctions that is certainly long but without any deterrent effect, it is urgent to find other truly effective responses. We ask the candidates to position themselves clearly on these crucial subjects for our country ! »
Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, OIP General Delegate

The OIP wishes to know the position of the candidates on the following proposals :

  1. The public order must have a structuring effect on the organization of alternative solutions to GAFAM;
  2. Sanctions imposed must be subject to judicial publication for 30 days on the websites of convicted actors;
  3. Possibility of interrupting access to the sentenced service in the event of a repeat offence;
  4. Legislative framework for digital advertising market share and audience share to be aligned;
    Creation of an observatory completely independent of the financing of conspiratorial and parasitic sites;
  5. Creation of a full-fledged Digital Ministry and permanent parliamentary committees in the two Assemblies;
  6. Reform of the public procurement code so that free digital offers no longer make it possible to escape competitive bidding procedures;
  7. Support of European digital solutions by public and private funds with strong diplomatic support to offer and promote these solutions to all countries – the “digital non-aligned” – wishing to opt for services respectful of European data and values.

→ Download the open letter from the OIP association to French presidential candidates (EN)

 

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Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, General Delegate : +33607315126 –  l.k@openinternetproject.eu

Anaïs Strauss, Adviser :+33757503010 – anais.strauss@openinternetproject.eu

26, rue de l’Université • 75007 Paris
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OIP asks the PFUE to defend the interests of Europeans

OIP asks the PFUE to defend the interests of Europeans.

While European digital companies are offering genuine sovereign technologies and crying out to be showcased, defended and promoted, the OIP discovers with amazement the overrepresentation of American corporate lobbyists at a conference devoted to the « construction of Europe’s technological sovereignty through the development of European champions ».

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The Open Internet Project (OIP) learned with great astonishment and concern of the provisional program of the seminar entitled « Building Europe’s digital sovereignty », organized by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union on February 7 and 8 coming… While European digital companies are offering real sovereign technologies and calling for them to be highlighted, defended and promoted, the OIP discovers with amazement the overrepresentation of lobbyists from American companies at a conference devoted to the « building Europe’s technological sovereignty through the development of European champions ».

« Are the representatives of American interests the best placed to develop and present what European sovereignty should be ? »,
asks Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, General Delegate of the OIP

As a European association of organizations and European digital industrialists, the OIP recalls that digital sovereignty cannot be built by importing technologies and services that make our economy and our administration abnormally dependent on extra-European actors. The OIP also recalls that even if it is important, the sole respect of European values ​​by American or Asian companies cannot in any case constitute a criterion of sovereignty. Finally, it recalls that the abuses of dominant position to which these non-European companies are accustomed, which are sanctioned far too lightly and belatedly, largely explain the apparent lack of European players able to compete in international competition.

The OIP therefore calls on the Council of the European Union and its presidency to develop a more ambitious, more European and active vision of the construction of true digital sovereignty, and to build it with Europeans rather than against them. She hopes that the final program of this seminar will reflect this.

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Contacts:

Léonidas Kalogeropoulos, General Delegate : +33607315126 –  l.k@openinternetproject.eu

Anaïs Strauss, Adviser :+33757503010 – anais.strauss@openinternetproject.eu

26, rue de l’Université • 75007 Paris
+33 (0)1 53 45 91 91