Google's "new" privacy policy, launched a little over a year ago, is still causing headaches in Europe. But a new pan-European investigation into the policy may cause greater troubles for the search giant.
The French data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), said today that the search giant has failed to respond to its requests to make changes to its controversial privacy policy and has handed the case to European member states to deal with the matter locally.
The U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands were first involved in the examination of the new privacy policy -- which merged approximately 60 policies for Google products and services into one single policy.
In doing so, it could open Google to multiple fines at a local level in the coming months and quarters, once each authority has concluded its investigation into its privacy practices.
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