EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has stated that
Google's new privacy policy, launched on 1 March, contravenes
European law.
The new policy, announced by Google in January, consolidates 70
plus privacy policies into one main document to govern the majority
of its products and services. Google stated that one of its primary
aims is to explain what information is collected and how it is used
in a much more "readable way", with less "legal
gloop to wade through".
Google have cited that the multiple policies were over
complicated and at odds with their efforts to integrate its
different products and services more closely.
In practice, according to Google, users signed in to Google
Accounts will be treated as a single user across all the products,
meaning Google is able to combine information provided in relation
to one service with information from other services. Essentially,
private information collected from browsing data and web history by
one Google
