The Article 29 Working Party (A29 WP) sent a letter to Google saying that the Internet giant should “pause” before going ahead with the planned changes to its privacy policy. In January Google announced that it would “simplify” its privacy regulations as of March 1. This would create a single privacy policy for all its services including YouTube, Gmail and Google+. The request is not legally binding and Google believes that any changes would confuse users. The French data protection authority, CNIL, will take the lead in investigating the impact of Google’s plans.”]

