Google, the world’s largest search engine, has been given 35 days by Britain’s data protection watchdog to remove wireless network data collected by its cars for its Street View service in the country.

France is giving Google three months to be more open about the data it collects from users – or be fined.

Google faces possible fines after six EU data protection regulators started “co-ordinated” enforcement measures over the company’s failure to fix flaws in a new privacy policy.

Microsoft is filing an anti-competition complaint against Google with the European Commission.