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Europe To Probe New Google Privacy Policy
- Reuters, Thursday, March 1, 2012 3 AM
The day has arrived and, despite two requests from European regulators for a delay, Google is putting privacy changes, which essentially make one policy apply to all its services, into effect.
Earlier this week, CNIL, France’s data protection watchdog, promised to lead a European-wide investigation of the search giant’s policy and plans to send questions to Google by mid-month. Further, CNIL says the new policy breached European laws.
"The CNIL and EU data authorities are deeply concerned about the combination of personal data across services: they have strong doubts about the lawfulness and fairness of such processing, and its compliance with European data protection legislation," the French regulator wrote to Google.
It is already being investigated by the EU's competition authority and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over how it ranks search results and whether it favors its own products over rival services.
Editor's note: In a related story we included in our round-up on Wednesday, Vivian Reding, commissioner of the EU and vice-president of the European Commission, was incorrectly identified.
Correction
A news story we cited referred incorrectly to Vivian Reding. Her correct title is commissioner of the EU and vice-president of the European Commission.
Correction
A news story we cited referred incorrectly to Vivian Reding. Her correct title is commissioner of the EU and vice-president of the European Commission.
