The data protection authorities of the 27 countries of the European Union announced Monday it imposed sanctions on the U.S. technology company Google before the summer for refusing to adjust their privacy policy to EU legislation. In October 2012, "the Twenty" concluded that Google's privacy policy breaches EU rules on data protection and gave a deadline of four months to edit. In particular, the European agencies data protection asked Google to offer its users a clearer and more complete information on the data collected, the period of storage, use and combination of data collected by different services, such as YouTube, Gmail or Google+. "At the expiration of four months since Google to meet and commit to implement these recommendations, the company has not provided any response, "said the French authority on data protection, CNIL, which coordinates research. Therefore, the 27 data protection agencies "propose the implementation of a working group, controlled by the CNIL, to coordinate their repressive actions that must occur before the summer ", the statement said.
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