Google has been covered with legal troubles in recent times

Google has been warned by EU data regulators to revise its privacy policy about data mining and control over user data collection in the coming months. French data privacy regulator, CNIL stated that Google had been given enough time to change their privacy policy and if the search engine company did not meet the standards, CNIL would file a litigation against the company.

The decision of EU privacy policy watchdogs comes after Google consolidated 60 private policies into a single agenda in March. The search engine giant has been told to give clear information about what data is being collected and for what purpose. Google was also asked to give users more control over how their usage information is utilised and combined.

Responding to EU regulators, Google has asked the policy heads some time to prepare a detailed response. Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel said, “We have received the report and are reviewing it now. Our new privacy policy demonstrates our long-standing commitment to protecting our users’ information and creating great products. We are confident that our privacy notices respect European law.”

CNIL investigated the policy of Google on behalf of the 27 members of the European Union. The recommended changes were also supported by the members of Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities and Canada’s federal privacy commissioner, who had similar concerns about Google. The search engine firm has been given a time frame of three to four months to make the necessary changes failing which legal action against the firm would become inevitable.

Google has already been involved in a case over ignoring do-no-track in Safari browsers with Federal Trade Commission and the firm was also in the middle of an antitrust case with EU.

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