Google should delay introduction of the policy until European regulators have completed an investigation of the changes
Google's new privacy policy does not comply with European data protection law, and the company should delay its introduction pending an investigation of the changes, the French data privacy regulator told Google CEO Larry Page in a letter on Monday. But the company said once again that it will press ahead with the new policy, set to go live on Thursday.
The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) wrote to Page to express the concerns of the Article 29 Working Group, an umbrella body for data protection regulators from European Union member states.
Page did not respond directly: The company's reply was signed on behalf of Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer.
The Article 29 Working Group's chairman, Jacob Kohnstamm, had already written to Page on Feb. 2 asking the company to delay introduction of the new policy, but Google said then it had no intention of doing so.
In Google's latest refusal to comply, Fleischer said: "We have been keen to meet with the CNIL as lead authority on this matter and have reached out to your office on several occasions both prior to and since receiving Mr Kohnstamm's letter."
But, he continued, "Google are not in a position to pause the worldwide launch of our new privacy policy. [...] To pause now would cause a great deal of confusion for users."
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Source: csoonline.com
By: Peter Sayer
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