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"UK watchdog Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has given Google until September 20 to amend its privacy policy, deeming that it raises &amp;quot;serious questions&amp;quot; about compliance with the UK data act.\r\n\r\nIn a statement, ICO said it has worked with\u00A0other members of the Article 29 Working Party, made up of other 27 data protection authorities from across Europe, and explained its beef with Google's privacy policy:\r\nIn particular, we believe that the updated policy does not provide sufficient information to enable UK users of Google\u2019s services to understand how their data will be used across all of the company\u2019s products.\r\nIn January last year,\u00A0Google announced plans\u00A0to bring its 60+ privacy policies for its various products &amp;quot;under one roof&amp;quot;, but the EU has consistently been uneasy with the change, right from February 3 when\u00A0Jacob Kohnstamm, Chairman of the Article 29 Working Party,\u00A0wrote to Larry Page\u00A0with an unsuccessful request for the introduction to be \u201Cpaused\u201D. The policy, however, went live in March.\r\n\r\nICO's latest move comes soon after it served an enforcement notice to Google demanding that it\u00A0delete any remaining payload data previously obtained by its Street View cars.\r\n\r\nPrivacy controversies have been extremely heated in the European Union, and Google has been entangled in the debate. The UK's move also comes\u00A0hot on the heels of\u00A0France ordering Google to make changes to its policy regarding Internet users\u2019 data within three months or face fines.\r\n\r\nRecently,\u00A0Sweden\u2019s data protection agency ruled to disallow an agreement\u00A0between a tiny municipality and Google for the use of cloud services, such as Google Apps, within the public body.\u00A0In 2011,\u00A0France handed Google a record fine\u00A0of \u20AC100,000\u00A0($141,300 circa 2011)\u00A0for breaching the privacy of French citizens by collecting and storing\u00A0sensitive\u00A0data from neighborhood Wi-Fi networks using its Street View cars.\r\n\r\nImage Credit: Ralph Orlowski via Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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