Standing Up For Your Rights: Action Against Unlawful Surveillance & Exploitation of Personal Data

Stand up for your rights and your privacy: Action against Google’s illegal surveillance practices and exploitation of your personal data

Stichting Bescherming Privacybelangen (Privacy Protection Stichting) is a Dutch foundation that fights for consumers’ privacy rights. The Foundation’s mission is to stop the unprecedented privacy violations: Google’s ongoing illegal surveillance of Dutch consumers and commercial exploitation of their personal data must stop. The Foundation is therefore now taking legal action against Google.

The Foundation insists that Google fundamentally change its business practices. In addition, it demands financial compensation for all Dutch consumers who have been harmed by Google’s systematic violations of the law. To achieve these goals, the Foundation has joined forces with Consumentenbond.

Ada van der Veer, the Foundation’s president: “Consumer privacy is seriously at stake. Google knows what you are doing, where you are, what you might want to do and what you may be thinking about. With its services and products, Google is the most dominant data company in the world. You simply cannot avoid Google, while at the same time Google continuously observes and records the private activities, location data, interests and search behaviour of all its users. Users are in the dark about the nature and extent of Google’s practices and have lost control and authority over their personal data. Google also stores this data in the United States without adequate protection from surveillance by the U.S. government. Google’s practices are unacceptable and in violation of Dutch and European consumer and data protection law. SBP wants to force Google to stop this.”

The Foundation has invited Google to negotiate an appropriate collective resolution. If Google is not willing to do this, the Foundation will institute collective legal proceedings against Google on behalf of all Dutch consumers who use or previously used Google’s products and services.

Visit ‘Our Action Against Google’ for more information on the Action. Visit ‘About Us’ for more information on the Foundation. Visit ‘Partners’ for more information on the partnerships of the Foundation. Visit ‘Aggrieved Parties’ for more information on who we represent and the ‘no cure, no pay’ arrangement.