European consumer groups want regulators to act against Google tracking


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 27 Nov 2018

A pedestrian walks past signage at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Alphabet Inc. is pushing efforts to roll back the most comprehensive biometric privacy law in the U.S., even as the company and its peers face heightened scrutiny after the unauthorized sharing of data at Facebook Inc. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

BRUSSELS: Consumer agencies in the Netherlands, Poland and five other European Union countries asked privacy regulators on Nov 27 to take action against Google for allegedly tracking the movements of millions of users in breach of the bloc's new privacy law.

Google is already facing a lawsuit in the United States for allegedly tracking phone users regardless of privacy settings.

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