March 1, 2012

French Agency Says Google’s Privacy Policy May Be Illegal

The French data protection authority said that Google’s new privacy policy appeared to violate European Union law, raising the stakes in a showdown with the company only days before it planned to put the new system into effect. Google announced the new policy last month, billing it as a way to streamline and simplify the privacy practices it employed worldwide across about 60 different online services, and to introduce greater clarity for users.

Read the article: http://gigalaw.com/2012/02/28/french-agency-says-googles-privacy-policy-may-be-illegal/ (Source: The New York Times)

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