EU Data-Privacy Officials Probing Google
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By CONSTANT BRAND  BRUSSELS, Belgium - An independent European Union panel is investigating whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules, which tend to be stricter than those in the United States.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- An independent European Union panel has launched an investigation into whether Google Inc.'s Internet search engine abides by European privacy rules.
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European Union investigators will probe allegations that Microsoft withheld information from rivals that would allow them to make compatible software.
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Google has responded to a U.S. congressman&#39;s series of questions about its privacy practices, with the company defending its use of consumer data.
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Europe&#39;s top data protection officials are working to clarify a grey area of Internet law: the legal status of an IP address.
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European consumer groups warned the European Commission Thursday that&#160;Google&#39;s plan to take over the online advertising company DoubleClick, currently&#160;under investigation, would&#160;erode consumers&#39; privacy&#160;and would push up prices for online goods and services.
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Google will tell Brussels it needs to hold on to users' search data for up to two years for security and commercial reasons after being warned it could be violating European privacy laws by doing so.
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Google Inc , the world's  largest Internet company, will propose at a meeting of  international policymakers in France on Friday that national  regulators agree on a basic set of global privacy protections.
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Google will tell Brussels it needs to  hold on to users&#39; search data for up to two years for security  and commercial reasons after being warned it could be violating  European privacy laws by doing so.
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Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing search data for up to two years.
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Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office.
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Google attacked European  parliamentarians and privacy advocates on Monday for trying to  have competition authorities consider the handling of personal  information in its $3.1 billion takeover of rival DoubleClick.
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PARIS, Dec. 21 -- European regulators are investigating whether a proposed merger of the Internet search engine Google and the dominant online advertiser DoubleClick would violate competition regulations, even as U.S. authorities approved an American marriage between the two companies Thursday.
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In a response to EU privacy complaints, Google will make use data anonymous after 18 months, may redesign cookies.
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The decision by Google to limit the retention of identifiable search data to a flat 18 months (as opposed to the 18-24 month range announced earlier) earned the company some rare praise from the European Union, which has been critical of Google&#39;s privacy policies.
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GOOGLE has agreed to scale back how long it keeps personal search data accumulated from its web users in order to appease a European Union watchdog.