Data collected by Google was used to “create very detailed user profiles which the company can exploit', authorities said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN - Germany’s antitrust regulator on Wednesday criticised the way Google handles users’ data and threatened action against the US tech giant.
“General and indiscriminate data retention... is not permissible” without giving users choice, the watchdog said. The digital giant had “access to relevant data gathered from a large number of different services” which meant it enjoyed “a strategic advantage over other companies”, Mundt said in a statement.
Wielding the new legislation, the watchdog has also opened probes into US tech giants such as Amazon and Facebook.
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