Google faces its largest ever fine from a European regulator after the Dutch Data Protection Agency threatened the technology group with a €15m bill over the way it stores personal data.
Dutch regulators demanded that the US company ask users for “unambiguous consent” before it can share their personal details between its services, such as Google Maps and YouTube, the video-sharing site. It also mandated that the company clarify its privacy policy so users know which bits of personal data are used by different services.
In addition, the regulator demanded that Google make clear to users that it owns YouTube, but conceded that the internet group had already done that.