Privacywaakhonden from various European countries came to the conclusion that Google’s new privacy policy conflicting with European law. This said EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding Thursday, reports Reuters news agency.
According to Reding would be the various national regulators have indicated that they have serious concerns about the new privacy terms of Google. The French equivalent of the CBP has, at their request, a study of the new privacy policy, which is march 1 to be effective. The supervisors on the basis of the outcome to the conclusion that this is not in line with the European law. In addition, they would find that Google is not transparent enough, according to Reding.
Google is in the time to come in both Europe and the United States over its new privacy terms. The search giant is switched to one set of terms for all of its services. The company hereby reserves the right to things like browsing habits and other preferences to save as an effective profile building, that can be used for the deployment of targeted ads.
Although users can indicate their browsing habits should not be followed, there is no users option Google to use services if they do not agree with the new terms and conditions. In a reaction suggested to Google that users will not be forced to accept the conditions: many services, such as YouTube and Maps, can be used without being logged in.
However, in that case, still information will be collected, though it may be not a person to be linked. Google stresses, further, that nothing changes to the visibility data of Google users, for others, and that a major campaign has been set up to users on the new terms and conditions.