Pride comes before a fall they say and proudly Google stated ithas managed to have unified all of its services under a single privacy policy. Well, Google's excitement has had a large dumping of water thrown on it by the EU who has asked it to hold off on the policy's implementation while it investigated the changes. And its enthusiasm is likely all but drowned now that EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has declared the policy to be in breach of European law. She found fault with the fact that the EU wasn't consulted in the policy's formation, the policy doesn't meet transparency requirements, and it allows Google to give people's private data to third parties. No word on what Europa's governing body will do with such findings in hand, but it seems certain that Google has got some policy revisions to make. Google has come under a lot of flack lately and this is just another dumping for them.
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