European Union regulators are raising concerns about the new Google privacy plan but Google signals it will go ahead in any event

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Ian Paul, PCWorld – “European data protection authorities are asking Google to delay its roll out of a new consolidated privacy policy that will further integrate your personal information across all of Google’s services.”
The European Union’s Article 29 Working Party, a European umbrella organization that includes 27 data protection authorities in the EU, sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page Thursday asking for more time to study the company’s policy update.

“We call for a pause [in the new privacy policy roll out] in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google’s commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens,” wrote (PDF) Article 29 Chairman Jacob Kohnstamm.

If Google did delay its privacy policy, it’s not clear whether it would affect users in other parts of the globe including the United States.

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