The Information Commissioner's Office said in a
statement that it required Google to sign a "formal undertaking"
that it would make the changes by June 30 and take further steps
in the next two years.
The ICO investigation stems from a privacy policy implemented by
Google in March 2012 that consolidated some 70 existing privacy
policies into one and pooled data collected on individual users
across its services, including YouTube, Gmail and its social
network Google+.
Regulators in Spain and France have fined Google 900,000 euros
($1.02 million) and 150,000 euros respectively over the privacy
policy, small penalties relative to Google's scale.
Google's annual revenue in 2013 was $55.52 billion.
(Reporting by Leila Abboud; Editing by Andrew Callus)
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