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European Watchdogs Challenge Google Over Its Privacy Policy

Posted by timothy on from the only-the-government-gets-to-spy-so-much dept.

Trajan Przybylski writes "Information rights authorities in the UK, Germany, and Italy threatened to take legal action against Google if the company does not change its unified privacy policy. In its latest statement the ICO, Britain's information watchdog said Google's privacy policy implemented in March 2012 may not comply with the UK Data Protection Act. Many privacy activists and commentators have been critical of the data unification practice with some claiming the data sharing across web services carries serious risk of compromising people's identities as many users are not even aware their data is freely passed between Google-owned services."

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  1. Ah, the irony by intermodal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People log in with one account, yet they somehow may not be aware that their information may be sharing between different parts of one account?

    Personally, I'm surprised people don't just consider Google to be one service with many facets at this point.

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