I am from germany. You shouldnt overestimate the warning. Some background information:
1. You have to know the context: The situation is very special in germany at the moment. Here is a big discussion about privacy and data security. There was a big scandal some weeks ago because a call center company sold some data from its customers and other companys abused these informations. Somehow the politicians and goverment agencys have a "bad conscience" now.
2. Im a lawyer and i think if the warning is really an official warning it is rather problematic (for the goverment agency, not for google). But one has to know that in germany some ministries understand themselves somehow as consumer protection agencies. It is a little bit different than in other countries i guess.
3. The warning is more directed to people who dont know much about the internet: mums and dads and aol-users and so on. The goverment agency didnt tell them anything different then that what every reader of this page here already knows.
1. You have to know the context: The situation is very special in germany at the moment. Here is a big discussion about privacy and data security. There was a big scandal some weeks ago because a call center company sold some data from its customers and other companys abused these informations. Somehow the politicians and goverment agencys have a "bad conscience" now.
2. Im a lawyer and i think if the warning is really an official warning it is rather problematic (for the goverment agency, not for google). But one has to know that in germany some ministries understand themselves somehow as consumer protection agencies. It is a little bit different than in other countries i guess.
3. The warning is more directed to people who dont know much about the internet: mums and dads and aol-users and so on. The goverment agency didnt tell them anything different then that what every reader of this page here already knows.