European privacy watchdogs urge Google to make privacy changes
In a recent letter addressed to Internet search giant Google, a group of European privacy watchdogs has urged the company to make some pertinent privacy-related changes, which will have an impact on the manner in which the company divulges the details pertaining to the data that it collects from the users of its popular Web-search engine and other services.
Likely to be announced on Tuesday, the privacy changes which the European agencies have asked Google to make do not imply, in any way, that the Internet company should invalidate its March-introduced privacy-policy revamp.
The European Union (EU) agencies' request to Google for privacy changes has come after it was found by European privacy regulators that Google's revised privacy policy has certain flaws, which could amount to the breach of the EU data protection laws.
According to a Reuters report, the letter which the EU agencies have jointly sent to Google has been signed by most of the European data and privacy regulators; precisely 24 out of the 27 member states, with the three exceptions being Greece, Lithuania, and Romania.
Along with calling on Google to make privacy changes, the letter also recommends that "explicit consent" of the users should be sought by the company while combining their personal information on "such a large scale," the European agencies said in the letter: "Internet companies should not develop privacy notices that are too complex, law oriented or excessively long."