Google的隐私沙箱被奥地利非营利组织指控跟踪用户

Google's plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser with Privacy Sandbox has run into fresh trouble after Austrian privacy non-profit noyb (none of your business) said the feature can still be used to track users.

谷歌计划通过隐私沙箱在其Chrome网络浏览器中淘汰第三方跟踪cookie，但奥地利隐私非营利组织noyb表示该功能仍可用于跟踪用户。

"While the so-called 'Privacy Sandbox' is advertised as an improvement over extremely invasive third-party tracking, the tracking is now simply done within the browser by Google itself," noyb said.

"所谓的'隐私沙箱'被宣传为相对极其侵入性的第三方跟踪的改进，但现在跟踪只是由谷歌浏览器本身完成，" noyb称。

"To do this, the company theoretically needs the same informed consent from users. Instead, Google is tricking people by pretending to 'Turn on an ad privacy feature.'"

"为了做到这一点，公司理论上需要用户同样的知情同意。然而，谷歌通过假装'打开广告隐私功能'来欺骗人们。"

In other words, by making users agree to enable a privacy feature, they are still being tracked by consenting to Google's first-party ad tracking, the Vienna-based non-profit founded by activist Max Schrems alleged in a complaint filed with the Austrian data protection authority.

换句话说，通过让用户同意启用隐私功能，他们仍然被追踪，而维也纳的这家非营利组织由激进分子马克斯·谢姆斯创立，指控该公司在提交给奥地利数据保护当局的投诉中，通过同意谷歌的第一方广告跟踪，仍在被跟踪。

Privacy Sandbox is a set of proposals put forth by the internet giant that aims to block covert tracking techniques and limit data sharing with third-parties while allowing website publishers to serve tailored ads.

隐私沙箱是由这家互联网巨头提出的一套提案，旨在阻止隐蔽的跟踪技术，限制与第三方的数据共享，同时允许网站发布商提供定制广告。

However, its plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome have been repeatedly delayed as it works towards addressing concerns and feedback raised by regulators and developers. Back in April, the company said it intends to phase out third-party cookies early next year.

然而，由于谷歌正在努力解决监管机构和开发人员提出的担忧和反馈，其在Chrome中淘汰第三方cookie的计划已被多次推迟。公司在四月份表示，打算在明年初逐步淘汰第三方cookie。

In the interim, Google is ramping up testing efforts, with the company already deprecating third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users globally starting the first quarter of 2024.

与此同时，谷歌正在加大测试力度，公司已经从2024年第一季度开始逐步淘汰全球1%的Chrome用户的第三方cookie。

While users have the option to agree to disagree to tracking in this manner, noyb has accused the company of using dark patterns to increase consent rates and misleadingly passing it off as a feature that protects users from ad tracking.

虽然用户可以选择同意或不同意以这种方式进行跟踪，但noyb指责该公司使用黑暗模式来增加同意率，并误导地将其称为保护用户免受广告跟踪的功能。

Noyb further argued that Privacy Sandbox being less invasive than third-party cookie tracking mechanisms does not give Google the right to violate data protection laws in the region.

noyb进一步指出，隐私沙箱相对于第三方cookie跟踪机制来说更少侵入性，并不意味着谷歌有权违反该地区的数据保护法。

"Consent has to be informed, transparent, and fair to be legal. Google has done the exact opposite," Schrems said. "If you merely steal less money from people than another thief, you can't call yourself a 'wealth protection agent.' But that is basically what Google is doing here."

谢姆斯说:"同意必须是知情、透明和公平的才是合法的。而谷歌做了完全相反的事情。如果你只是比另一个小偷偷得少，你不能称自己为'财富保护代理人'。但这基本上就是谷歌在这里做的事情。"

Google, in a statement shared with Reuters, said Privacy Sandbox offers "meaningful privacy improvement" over existing technologies, and that it will work towards arriving at a "balanced outcome" that meets the needs of all stakeholders.

谷歌在与路透社分享的一份声明中表示，隐私沙箱比现有技术提供了"有意义的隐私改进"，并将努力达成一个"满足所有利益相关方需求的平衡结果"。

This is not the first time Noyb has filed complaints with the European Union watchdogs against big tech companies for alleged privacy infringements.

这不是noyb第一次向欧盟监管机构对大型科技公司涉嫌侵犯隐私提起投诉。

Earlier this April, it accused ChatGPT maker OpenAI of violating General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws by "hallucinating" false information about individuals.

今年四月早些时候，它指责ChatGPT制造商OpenAI通过"产生"关于个人的虚假信息，违反了《通用数据保护条例》（GDPR）法律。

It has also criticized Meta for relying on "Legitimate Interests" over its plans to utilize publicly shared data of its users -- with the exception of private messages with friends and family or from accounts of Europeans under age 18 -- to train and develop unspecified artificial technologies.

它还批评Meta依赖于"合法利益"，因其计划利用公开分享的数据来训练和开发未指定的人工技术，但不包括与朋友和家人或欧洲未满18岁用户账户的私人消息。

The social media company has since responded stating the AI models it develops "need to be trained on relevant information that reflects the diverse languages, geography, and cultural references of the people in Europe who will use them."

这家社交媒体公司随后回应称，其开发的AI模型"需要在反映欧洲人使用的语言、地理和文化参考的相关信息上进行训练。"

It further said other companies including Google and OpenAI have already used data from European users to train their AI models, noting its approach is "more transparent and offers easier controls than many of our industry counterparts already training their models on similar publicly available information."

它进一步表示，包括谷歌和OpenAI在内的其他公司已经使用欧洲用户的数据来训练他们的AI模型，指出其方法"比许多我们业界同行已经在类似公开信息上训练他们的模型更加透明并提供更简单的控制。"

参考资料

[1]https://thehackernews.com/2024/06/googles-privacy-sandbox-accused-of-user.html

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