EU 'may take action' against Google over privacy policy

Regulators spent nine months investigating Google's data collection practices

EU watchdogs plan to yield activity adjoin Google by this summer over the web giant's accepted aloofness policy, French aloofness regulator CNIL has said. 

Since March, Google has been accumulation abstracts from beyond its sites to potentially bigger ambition adverts - which regulators see as "high risk" to people's privacy.

Last October, the close was accustomed four months to alter its policy.

Google said its accomplishments did accede with EU law.

The new action was implemented afterwards the aggregation accumulated 60 abstracted aloofness behavior into one agreement.

CNIL said the internet behemothic had not yet fabricated the changes accepted by the regulators.
"Google did not accommodate any absolute and able answers," CNIL said on Monday.

"In this context, the EU abstracts aegis authorities are committed to act and abide their investigations. Therefore, they adduce to set up a alive group, led by the CNIL, in adjustment to alike their reaction, which should yield abode afore summer."

But Google said the close did account European law.

"We accept affianced absolutely with the CNIL throughout this process, and we'll abide to do so traveling forward," the close told the BBC.

In total, 12 recommendations were categorical in a letter active by 24 of the EU's 27 abstracts regulators, afterward a nine-month analysis into Google's abstracts accumulating practices.

Among the proposed changes were the following:
  Google have to "reinforce users' consent". It suggests this could be done by acceptance its associates to accept beneath what affairs abstracts about them was accumulated by allurement them to bang on committed buttons.

  The close should action a centralised opt-out apparatus and acquiesce users to adjudge which of Google's casework provided abstracts about them.

  Google should acclimate its own accoutrement so that it could absolute abstracts use to authorised purposes. For example, it should be able to use a person's aggregate abstracts to advance aegis efforts but not to ambition advertising.