The Daily Caller

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  FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2010 file photo, an attendee uses a mouse over a Google mousepad at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Beginning Thursday, March 1, 2012, Google will operate under a streamlined privacy policy that enables the Internet’s most powerful company to dig even deeper into the lives of its more than 1 billion users. (AP Phioto/dapd, Torsten Silz, File)   

Google privacy changes ‘in breach of EU law’

Changes made by Google to its privacy policy are in breach of European law, the EU’s justice commissioner has said.

Viviane Reding told the BBC that authorities found that “transparency rules have not been applied”.

The policy change, implemented on Thursday, means private data collected by one Google service can be shared with its other platforms including YouTube, Gmail and Blogger.

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