Japanese Government Warns Google Around Its New Privacy Policy


Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(METI) announced [J] on February 29 that they jointly notified to Google that its privacy policy which would be newly introduced on March 1 must respect laws and regulations, also inform users the change well.

Google, as well as on other countries and regions, has been asking Japanese users to read its new integrated, cross-service privacy policy.

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