EU privacy regulators to rule on Google policy changes

February 18, 2013

European privacy authorities have threatened action before the summer to curb Google's collection, combination, and storage of its users' personal information, after growing impatient with the company's failure to respond to their criticisms of its revised privacy policy. An action plan was drawn up last month, and will be submitted for approval next week at a formal meeting of the Article 29 Working Party (A29WP), which brings together data protection authorities from across the European Union. Google introduced its revised, unified privacy policy on March 1, 2012, despite requests for a delay from AW29P. The A29WP's members wanted more time to complete their examination of the policy changes Google had proposed. Google refused to wait, prompting the A29WP to ask the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) to conduct a full investigation. It exchanged several letters with Google seeking clarification of the company's policies before finally publishing its report on October 16. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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