Google targeted in fresh EU consumer groups' privacy complaints – Reuters

BRUSSELS, June 30 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users’ personal data harvested via their Google accounts, European consumer organisation BEUC said on Thursday.

In addition to the French consumer group, others in Greece, the Czech Republic, Norway and Slovenia have taken their gripes to their data protection authorities, BEUC said.

It said the German consumer body…