BERLIN Reuters -- Germany's cartel office regulator said on Wednesday it had objected to Google's data processing terms and that it expects the company to make changes accordingly.
The cartel office sent parent company Alphabet, Google Ireland Ltd and Google Germany GmbH a preliminary legal assessment on December 23, the regulator said in a statement.
It said users were not currently given enough choice as to whether and to what extent they agree to the far-reaching processing of their data across services.
A spokesman for Google said the company would continue to engage with the German regulator to try to resolve its concerns.
The spokesperson said that people expect us to operate our business responsibly by maintaining product experiences that put users first and updating our services constantly to meet the expectations of regulators.