European Law Enforcement Agencies Launch Parallel Investigations Into Google Privacy Policies

European authorities are now individually investigating Google’s privacy practices after a four-month deadline set by a joint body expired with no response from Google.

The joint committee’s mandate is at an end, so it delegated further handling of the matter to the participating national data protection authorities effective today.

The inquiries relate to Google’s move in March 2012 to unify user profiles across its multiple services with the same privacy policy.

“The ICO has launched an investigation into whether Google’s revised March 2012 privacy policy is compliant with the Data Protection Act.