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One of the websites that sent personal information to Google without reporting is managed by the Public Ministry, which has now been reported to the Privacy Protection Authority.
– It’s simply deficient on our part. I can’t say any more than that, says Anders Thoursie, IT director at the Public Ministry.
The subject is sensitive because personal data can be stored in the United States, where the protection of personal data according to the Court of Justice of the European Union is worse than within the EU.
The information sent for the company it is an IP address, which the European Court of Justice classifies as personal data so that it can eventually be used to identify individuals.
Another authority that appears in Ekot’s review is the Swedish Defense Material Administration, FMV.
Anyone who has read about a vacancy at FMV.se in the past year has received your IP address and visit information forwarded to the company. This is despite the fact that the authority itself has said that no personal information is stored.
– It was not good. It was good that you were paying attention, and I’ll make sure we act on it, says Mats Pettersson, interim IT manager at FMV.
Shortly after Ekot’s interview, Google’s analytics service disappears from the FMV website.
Google tells Ekot They offer their customers the ability to anonymize IP addresses, and that this is done automatically for those using the latest version of their analytics service.
But more than 150 public websites have forwarded IP addresses without informing their visitors. Another eighty have promised that their users will be able to remain anonymous, but they have not kept that promise. In total, Ekot has reviewed about 500 websites.
One of the sites The promised anonymity is SCB.se, which belongs to Statistics Sweden and received close to ten million visits last year alone. For more than two years, SCB.se sent the IP addresses of visitors to Google.
– Of course, it is not good if what is written on our site is not correct, says Cecilia Westström, head of the communications department at Statistics Sweden.
How could it turn out like this?
– I have no answer for that. I will withdraw it and return.
Since the interviews with Ekot, Statistics Sweden and the Public Prosecutor’s Office they have reported to the Privacy Protection Authority.
