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EU neighbour Norway has begun its own investigation into Google (Photo: EUobserver)

EU looks into Google data collection

EU data protection officials are questioning whether Google - the company behind the world's most popular search engine - is violating EU law on data protection by storing personal information of the search engine user for up to two years.

In a letter to the internet company's European office in Paris last week, the EU's data protection advisory agency – called the Article 29 Working Group - asked Google whether it had "fulfilled all the necessary requirements" on data protection as wel...

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EU neighbour Norway has begun its own investigation into Google (Photo: EUobserver)

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