Now, Google’s new privacy policy is going to be formally inspected by the Six European data protection agency. After the latest changes into the privacy policies of Google in March, the data protection agency has repeatedly requested the company to reverse the policies, which went merely unanswered, and now the data protection authorities of the six European countries namely, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, U.K. and the Netherlands are about to perform an investigation on the Google.
The actions will take place according to the respective national laws of the 6 European countries who will be investigating into the matter. According to the Hamburg’s Commissioner for Data Privacy and Freedom of Information, Germany, they will review the way Google processes the user data; though Google collects consent from the user prior collecting their information, but in most of the cases, it is out of the capacity of the general users to fathom the total scope of this consent. The process of dispensation of the personal data as performed by Google was also questioned.
Now the officials from the six countries are going to take a closer look into the Google’s compliance with the data protection laws, and they ensure to take every supervisory measure. The French and Dutch data protection authority have confirmed about the initiation of the inspection process, and the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office has also indicated about the on-going investigation.
In the last year, the Six data protection authorities mandated CNIL to initiate an investigation on Google after they rejected repeated requests of discussing the new privacy policies with the data authority. CNIL came up with their report in the month of October 2012, and instructed Google to comply with the recommendations within four months, but there was no initiative taken at the part of Google to implement the recommendations, and now it is up-to the member states and their laws how they are going to deal with Google on this issue.
The response from the part of Google remain the same that their privacy policies respects the European Laws and their purpose are only to create seamless, simpler and effective services to serve the users better.