Gmail creates “Spam Emails”, despite CJEU judgment

Today, noyb.eu filed a complaint against Google with the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL). The tech giant has repeatedly ignored the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling on direct marketing emails and used its email platform Gmail to send unsolicited advertising emails without valid consent of the users. Complaint filed with French Data Protection Authority CNIL (EN) Complaint filed with French Data Protection Authority CNIL (FR) Ads disguised as emails. Google sends Gmail users unsolicited advertising emails directly to their inbox. These messages may look like normal emails, but are in fact ads to which users never consented to. When commercial emails are sent directly to users, they constitute as direct marketing emails and are regulated under the ePrivacy directive. Google ignores CJEU judgment on inbox advertising. EU law already makes it quite clear: the use of email, for the purpose of direct marketing, requires user consent. The Court of Justice went further and confi