Led by France, organizations in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy agreed on Tuesday on the joint action.
Regulators in Google’s largest European markets are taking joint action
to try to force the company to overhaul its privacy policy.
Led by France, organizations in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy agreed on Tuesday on the joint action.
The regulators claim Google has failed to make concrete changes to its
privacy policy, leaving customers in the dark about the information the
company has about them and how long it is kept. Last year the company
merged 60 separate privacy policies into one universal procedure.
Officials from Google Inc. have said the policy was a necessary and legal streamlining.
Privacy experts say Google’s ability to gather and combine user data is
key for the company,
whose search engine has about 95 percent market
penetration in Europe.