Chrome: extensions will have to comply with stricter privacy rules

The Chrome browser allows its users to enjoy extensions offered by developers. It is also on the side of these that Google decided to tighten the screw. 

As the Mountain View company explains, starting next October, new rules will come into effect for developers of extensions dedicated to Chrome. The collection of personal data is mainly concerned.

Extensions will only collect data useful for their operation

So far, Google has been asking extension developers to collect only private information for the operation of the latter, without requiring them. From now on, everyone will have to comply with it - and penalties must be provided for offenders. 

This new rule, much stricter than before regarding the protection of private data, was announced last May under the name "  Project Strobe ". Its implementation will be effective from October 15th. The developers will then have to update, otherwise, their extensions will be removed. 

But Project Stobledoes did not stop there since greater transparency will also be requested to the developers of extensions. Users will be better informed about how companies use their private data, through a document they will have to fill out. 

"  After October 15, 2019, extensions violating the new rules of the users' private data policy will be removed or rejected from the online store and will need to be brought back into compliance to be reinstated  ."

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Google and private data protection, a long history

These new Google metrics are not surprising. The Mountain View firm has often been blamed for its management of private data, often blurred. With these rules, Google ensures good publicity among users still wary. 
As a reminder, the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL) had already sentenced Google to a fine last January: 50 million euros. A tiny sum against the $ 136.22 billion in sales in 2018 for the firm of Mountain View but for a symbolic penalty. 

At least one of the GAFAs showed that it was not above the laws concerning the management of personal data on the Internet.