Google could face fines from six European countries’ privacy action coque samsung j7 regulators, including the UK and Germany, after refusing coque samsung galaxy s6 barcelona to reverse coque samsung s9 personnalisable changes to its coque samsung galaxy grand prime smileys privacy policies made in March 2012.

The search company has infuriated the regulators by declining to respond to their demands made over multiple months coque samsung s6 spiegen even as research shows that user concerns about online privacy are high.

France’s privacy body, CNIL, together with its counterparts in the UK, Netherlands, German, Spain and Italy, said on Tuesday they will take joint legal action involving an investigation and possible fines. The UK’s information commissioner’s office (ICO) can coque samsung galaxy s7 edge verre trempé levy fines of up to 500,000 for breaches of coque disney galaxy s7 the Data Protection Act. A decision is expected by summer 2013. CNIL could fine it up to 300,000 (255,000).

However, even both fines added coque samsung j5 incassable together would be coque galaxy a3 2016 licorne less than Google generates in sales in 10 minutes. Yet the regulators could sue to block Google from operating in Europe a move that would be etui housse coque samsung galaxy core prime highly damaging galaxy s8 coque miroir to its reputation.

Google’s rival Facebook has been forced in the past to make a number of changes to its operation to comply with Europe’s data protection laws, which are significantly tougher but more fragmented than those in the US.

The move comes while European competition regulators are separately trying to decide what action to take to prevent monopoly abuses by coque samsung grand prime de marque Google, which has about 95% of the European search market.

The decision will be the first big challenge for Google’s new privacy director, Lawrence You, a software engineer based at Google’s Mountain View headquarters in California coque de galaxy a10 replacing London based Alma Whitten, another engineer who was the first to have the job created in October 2010.

This is not unfamiliar personnalisation de coque samsung galaxy core prime ground for the new director You worked with Whitten on combining coque galaxy a50 transparente the privacy policies together last year. “After this period has expired, Google has not implemented any significant compliance measures.”

The agencies complained of being stonewalled by Google for over a year about their concerns that its unification of more than 60 separate privacy policies last year could confuse users and leave them unsure how their data was being used.

“We put our concerns to Google [in October] and gave them a date to respond,” said a spokesperson for the ICO. “They failed to respond. We had a meeting coque galaxy a5 2017 manga in March and Google was present, and gave them a deadline to respond. They failed to respond. Google has failed to address the concerns or take on board the recommendations from the meeting held last month.”

A Google spokesperson said: “Our privacy coque samsung s8 carte policy respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services. The same research found that 71% felt it was right for privacy regulators to investigate the changes coque samsung velo in Google’s privacy policy last year, and two coque samsung s8 led fonctionne plus thirds coque samsung galaxy grand prime personnaliser said the regulators should do more to force Google to comply.

As the latest moves were announced on Tuesday, Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, said: “Google has repeatedly put profit ahead of user privacy and the way that the company ignored concerns from regulators around the world when it changed its privacy policy showed just how little regard it has for the law. Just because Google is a big business does not put it above the law. “The question is the extent to which consumers understand the value of their personal data and the extent that they are happy with the trade that they’re getting.”

Sources at Google told the Guardian that the company filed a response to the October recommendations in January, but added “no change [in privacy policies] isn’t the same as no response”.

The rolling up of the policies sparked an investigation led by CNIL last year. Google’s intent was to combine user data from coque samsung galaxy grand plus chocolat the different services, so that videos watched on YouTube would inform the choice of advertising shown when doing Google coque samsung grand prime marvel searches or coque samsung galaxy c9 pro reading Gmail.

In October, CNIL and the other regulators criticised the changes, and demanded alterations. Google declined to do so.

Pickles said: “Consumers are increasingly concerned about how their data is being used, and it is essential that those breaking the law are properly punished. It is essential regulators find a sanction that is not just a slap on the wrists and will coque samsung galaxy a5 2016 rick et morty make Google’s think twice before it ignores consumer rights again.”

“No one is against Google’s objective of simplicity. It’s legitimate. But it needs to be accompanied by transparence for consumers and the ability to say yes or no,” Isabelle Falque Pierrotin, head of CNIL, said recently. “[But] consumers have the right to know how the information is being used and what’s being done with it.”..