German watchdog raps Google over user data practices

Berlin: Germany’s antitrust regulator on Wednesday criticised the way Google handles users’ data and threatened action against the US tech giant.

Data collected by Google was used to “create very detailed user profiles which the company can exploit for advertising and other purposes”, the Federal Cartel Authority said.

Based on a preliminary assessment, the watchdog determined that users were not given sufficient clarity on the “far-reaching processing of their data across services” by the tech company.