Search-engine Google has been ordered to re-write its data collection rules after EU regulators found that they were in breach of EU data protection laws.
A letter to Google CEO Larry Page signed by 24 of the EU's 27 national data protection regulators said that the software-giant had "not demonstrated that your company endorses the key data protection principles of purpose limitation, data quality, data minimisation, proportionality and right to object."
The regulators, who coll...
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