Europe continues privacy tussle with Google
Google's 2012 rewrite of its privacy policy, which gave the company the right to "combine personal information" across multiple products, is still ruffling feathers in Europe.
France's privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), said today that six European countries are launching "coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions" because Google "has not implemented any significant compliance measures," despite a request for changes to the policy. The countries are France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K.
It all dates back to early last year, when Google … Read more