Looks like Google is in trouble again, Google is being fined around $1.23 million for breaking Spain’s data protection law.
“Spanish privacy watchdogs have fined Google for breaking the country’s law when it combined more than 70 privacy policies into one user information sharing policy last year.
The €900,000 ($1.23 million) fine comes at a time when the search giant is under increasing pressure from European authorities and local governments over its privacy policies and business practices.
Under the new privacy policy, created in March 2012, Google was then able to share user data from one service to another, which the search giant claimed at the time enhanced the experience for the end user.
But critics claim the new “data-sharing policy” allows Google to build up a more specific and accurate picture of its users. Although the data remains anonymous to the likes of advertisers, privacy groups previously warned that the collection of data makes it far easier to pinpoint who the user is.”
Source:ZDnet
