From the article: "European Union regulators want Google
to make changes to its new privacy policy to protect the rights of its users,
the EU's national data protection regulators said in a letter to the U.S.
internet company… The letter, which stopped short of declaring
Google's approach to collecting user data illegal, follows an investigation led
by France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique (CNIL) that began in
February.
Leading the inquiry on behalf of Europe, France's data
protection watchdog had already questioned the legality and fairness of
Google's new privacy policy, introduced in March. This consolidated 60 privacy
policies into one and pooled data collected on individual users across its
services, including YouTube, Gmail and its social network Google+. Users cannot
opt out." Read more