Google gets privacy policy lesson from EU data protection authorities

European Union privacy regulators want Google to make its privacy policies easier to find and understand, with exhaustive lists of what data it holds and processes, in order to comply with EU law, they told the company this week.Google received the package of recommendations from the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), an umbrella group for European data protection authorities. While WP29 has no power to sanction the company, its members have imposed fines in a number of cases following Google’s 2012 changes to its privacy policy, which several national privacy regulators found breached EU rules.WP29’s recommendations are common guidelines for complying with national privacy laws, it said in a letter to Google published Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here