European regulators moved a step closer to penalizing Google for the way it handles user data after the search engine refused to change its privacy policy.
France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain said on Tuesday they began a process to decide if Google's policy introduced in March 2012 broke national laws.
Google consolidated 60 privacy policies into one last year and started combining data collected on individual users across its services, such as YouTube, Gmail and social network Google+. It gave the users no means to opt out.
Twenty-nine European data protection regulators began a joint enquiry as a result.
The enquiry, led by France's CNIL, found in October that Google's new policy posed a "high risk" to the privacy of individuals, although it stopped short of declaring it illegal. Full story...
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France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain said on Tuesday they began a process to decide if Google's policy introduced in March 2012 broke national laws.
Google consolidated 60 privacy policies into one last year and started combining data collected on individual users across its services, such as YouTube, Gmail and social network Google+. It gave the users no means to opt out.
Twenty-nine European data protection regulators began a joint enquiry as a result.
The enquiry, led by France's CNIL, found in October that Google's new policy posed a "high risk" to the privacy of individuals, although it stopped short of declaring it illegal. Full story...
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