Dutch privacy watchdog says Google breaks data law

By way of Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Google's observe of combining personal knowledge from its a variety of on-line services violates Dutch information protection legislation, the u . s . a .'s privateness watchdog said on Thursday after a seven-month investigation. The Dutch Data Protection Authority, or DPA, requested Google to attend a gathering to speak about its considerations, after which it could come to a decision whether to take any motion in opposition to the cloud products and services, Web search and promoting giant, which may embrace fines. Google, responding to the Dutch authority's findings, mentioned it equipped users of its products and services with sufficiently particular information about the way it processed their non-public information. We’ve engaged absolutely with the Dutch DPA right through this course of and can proceed to do so going ahead," Google said in a statement.