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Friday, 2 March 2012

Google’s new policy raises a storm

As of 1 March Google has adapted a single policy across all the services they offer.

Last January, Google said it was going to simplify its approach to privacy by consolidating its 60 or more different privacy policies across its various services into one.

This change of policy has created an outcry and now Google is in the firing line of regulators who are claiming this violates data privacy laws.

What a ruckus it has caused, with others including the Europeans Union jumping up and down making accusations that EU law has been broken. The European commissioner of justice has said that Google was"sneaking" citizens' privacy away with its new policies and appears to be ignoring data protection treaties,

Find out more by watching this CNN report.