France gave Google Inc. three months to amend its policy regarding Internet users’ data to avoid fines, and said five other European countries will follow suit by the end of July. The U.S. search engine giant is breaching French laws because it “prevents individuals from knowing how their personal data may be used and from controlling such use,” France’s National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, the country’s data protection watchdog known as CNIL, said in a statement in Paris.
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