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2/29/12

Internet Censorship: Google's privacy changes fall short, France says

Google's changes to its privacy policy don't meet European data-protection standards, France's National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties said after a preliminary analysis.

The agency, known as CNIL, this week asked Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page to delay implementation of the policy pending a full review. Google has refused, according to a reply posted on its European policy website. 

European data-protection authorities "are deeply concerned about the combination of personal data across services," Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, CNIL's chairwoman, said in a letter to Google posted on the agency's website. "They have strong doubts about the lawfulness and fairness of such processing, and about its compliance with" regional rules.

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