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Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) has opened disciplinary proceedings in relation to Google’s new unified privacy policy for most of its services and implemented by the company in March last year, reports the own agency in a memo (PDF).

is a move announced a few hours after the French agency for data protection, CNIL, give an ultimatum to the company to comply with the laws of the country. The AEDP states “agreed the start of this research in the framework of a coordinated action with the Data Protection Authorities of Germany, France, Holland, Italy, United Kingdom “.

In Spain, the procedure is to clarify, among other things, whether the combination of data from various services complies with the guarantees of information to users, if the aims and proportionality for which information is used legitimizes data processing and if the retention periods and options for users to exercise their rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition meet the Organic Law on Data Protection.

In a brief statement, Google has stated that its privacy policy “respect European laws allows you to create simple and effective services.” “We are fully engaged with the authorities in this process, and will continue to be enjoined hereinafter” concludes his note.

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serious offenses and a slight

beginning of this disciplinary proceeding occurs after completing the previous research conducted by the AEPD, which allowed finding of evidence of the commission of a total of six offenses -five of them serious that could lead to fines of up to 300,000 euros and a slight-of the Data Protection Act.

Among the signs detected by the Spanish agency, it notes that “Google does not report clearly about the use you will make of the data it collects from users , so they can not know precisely which ends justify the collection of personal information or the use to be made of the same “.

addition, unified privacy policies allow the company, according to the AEPD, “combine personal information from one service to the other and use it for other purposes.”

also suspect that Google “could be doing a disproportionate treatment of user data,” the company “could be preserving user data indefinitely or unreasonable” .

Finally, it alleges that “ tools offered by Google to exercise the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition are scattered , not available to all users, are incomplete and appear names do not always correspond to the subject in question “.