Concerned about Google’s complicity with the NSA, the Indian government plans to ban the use of Gmail for official correspondence. The matter has also become a key issue in the run-up to the German federal elections in the third week of September.

Google is fast developing a reputation as a rogue company that pursues its own agenda at the expense of the rule of law. At the time of writing the Dutch data protection authority has published a ruling that outlaws Google Analytics – a decision that mirrors bans by Germany and Norway. Google has simply refused to offer a lawful contract.

Earlier this year Sweden banned public sector use of Google’s cloud services over privacy concerns, while France and Spain have ruled that the company is operating unlawfully in those countries.
It is now becoming a momentous task to document all the findings against Google by trade and privacy authorities, but the true threat posed by the company goes much further than mere transgressions of law. Google is now claiming immunity from the law itself.

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