Android privacy: Google faces CNIL's 69 queries

BANGALORE, INDIA: France's data protection authority, the National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, has sought Web search giant Google Inc's reply to the list of 69 questions on its privacy policy before April 5.

CNIL, as the regulatory body is known in France, questioned Google to ascertain whether policies for mobile devices running its Android operating system and information collected using "cookies" violated European privacy rules, said a statement on its website.

The questions "reflect the need for legal clarifications on your new privacy policy and in particular on the sharing of user data across Google services," according to CNIL's letter to Google chief executive officer Larry Page.

Google's privacy policy is under review by the agency, which is acting on behalf of other European regulators.

Google, however, was confident that our new simple, clear and transparent privacy policy respects all European data protection laws and principles, reported Bloomberg.