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Spanish privacy authority fines Google 900,000 euros for breaching data-protection rules

( December 19, 2013, 12:04 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Spanish Data Protection Authority has fined Google a total of 900,000 euros for three separate breaches of the rights of Spanish citizens, whose personal data the company collects. Google's treatment of the data in accordance with its new privacy policy is illegal, the authority said. For example, the search engine stores personal data indefinitely. The sanction is part of a coordinated enforcement against Google by the German, French, Dutch, Italian and UK data protection authorities.Statement follows in Spanish....

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