French Privacy Agency DDoS's Itself In Ordering Google To Link To It From Google France Home Page
from the what-you-get-when-you're-technologically-clueless dept
Last month, Google got hit with a €150,000 fine for its new privacy policy, which French regulators claimed violated the law. Google has been disputing this and has appealed, but as part of the ruling by the French National commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL), Google was ordered to post a statement to the home page of Google.fr about the fine, along with a link back to CNIL's website which had the full ruling. Google had asked to suspend the order to post the message until after the appeals process was complete, but that was denied. In response, Google posted the message, and promptly caused CNIL's website to go offline, as apparently the technologically clueless folks over there never realized that having a link from Google's home page in that country might lead to a bit of extra traffic.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: cnil, ddos, france, google home page, link, privacy
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Both sides.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
France: Clueless?
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As we all know, a country's politicians do not necessary represent its constituents - in any way at all.
That being said, Hahahahahahhaa. What idiots!
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Obviously, they didn't expect so much traffic, but that doesn't make them tech idiots, they released a GPL-licensed cookie visualisation tool last month for instance: http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/telechargez-cookieviz/
(it's hosted on Sourceforge, yeah, that's not very future-oriented…)
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Anyway, whoever represented the agency in this case isn't exactly clued up on technology, or at least didn't think far enough ahead to realise the results of their demands. That they happen to have some FOSS coders on their payroll doesn't change this.
If it makes you feel better, read the comment as referring to the people responsible for actions on behalf of the agency rather than their entire staff. That doesn't change the actual criticism.
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by Mozilla
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam/?src=search
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Dumb asses, 1. For not thinking this over, again!
and 2. Trying to influence public opinion on a mass scale during a "legal" battle,
For number two they are considerably a worser thing, then a "dumb ass"
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i.e. their right, even if the verdict is overturned, so any mention of this should the subject come up, they won, and the "law" backs them up, hoping that the person they say this too hasnt kept up, and knows of the overturn and realises the lie to such a statement, when their only concern is to "win"sic the current argument and hope everyone leaves before the truth of it comes out *sic*
Plus, the undisguised FORCED influence they are attempting, knowing that there is NOTHING right about what they say, but an artificial one.........they insult the people by not acknowledging their own damn individual opinions, or perhaps they know that what they do IS'NT right........they feel they need to brainwash......sorry......educate the people........for the n'th time, for the n'th generation
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
But this seems more French:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebvp45ZMQFE&t=5s
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And Google can't do anything about it
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Strange concept
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Reap what you sow
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I was hoping that Google would hold them to the court order and say that they could not remove the link without the court's permission.
And yes, I am passive-aggressive. :-)
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A government will never admit their own fault, so this will be shown as Google being evil and crashing them because they were unhappy with the courts ruling.
The appeal will be decided on that factor rather than the law because Google needs to be taught a lesson.
This works perfectly
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funny how that applies pronouced french, american or even australian
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