National Security Agency under the Prism
surveillance programme secretly gathered user data from nine U.S.
companies, including Google, to track people's movements and contacts
makes the timing especially sensitive for Google.
France's
data protection watchdog (CNIL) said Google had broken French law and
gave it three months to change its privacy policies or risk a fine of up
to 150,000 euros.
Spain's Data
Protection Agency (AEPD) told Google it would be fined between 40,000
euros and 300,000 euros for each of the five violations of the law, that
it had failed to be clear about what it did with data, may be
processing a "disproportionate" amount and holding onto it for an
"undetermined or unjustified" period of time.
The
CNIL, which has been leading Europe's inquiry since Google launched its
consolidated privacy policy in March 2012, said Britain, Germany, Italy
and the Netherlands would be taking similar action against the world's
No. 1 search engine.
Google could face fines totalling several million euros
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