European regulators want Google to rewrite its privacy policy

The UK ombudsman has instructed Google to rewrite its privacy policy, AllThingsD writes . The office of the ombudsman believes that the document does not explain well enough how user data is used in all products of the company.

There are claims to Google’s privacy policy in other countries as well: most recently, French regulators gave Google three months to correct this document, and in Germany, a search giant for August has a hearing about all of the same privacy.

The current privacy policy Google introduced in early 2012. It was the result of combining 70 separate policies for each service into a single document. After its entry into force, people actually became users of not individual products - Gmail or YouTube - but the entire Google ecosystem. This allowed the company to use user data from one service to another - to personalize the search.
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Although combining multiple documents into one seems convenient for users who no longer need to study the individual policies of each Google service, a number of European countries believe that the resulting document is very difficult to understand.

Google itself commented on these news with the following statement: “Our privacy policy respects European legislation and allows us to create more simple and efficient services. We fully cooperated with the authorities involved in this whole process, and we will continue to do so in the future. ”

However, despite all the cooperation, European regulators are tough enough in terms. “If the necessary measures to improve the rules in accordance with the Data Protection Act are not taken by September 20, administrative coercion measures may be applied to the company,” the British Information Commissioner said in a statement.

According to The Guardian, coercive measures can mean a fine of £ 500,000. At the same time in France, in the event of non-compliance with the conditions of the authorities, the company faces a fine of up to 150 thousand euros for the first time and up to 300 thousand for the second.