Brussels, 20/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - In France, the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL) has given the US search engine Google three weeks to justify its new confidentiality rules, according to a report by Reuters. Acting on behalf of all European regulators belonging to the European “Article 29” group, CNIL sent the US giant a letter in this connection on 16 March. The US firm is also called on to say what it exactly intends to do with the data gathered from internet users and how much time it intends to keep this data. In total, 69 questions have been put to the company. At the end of February, CNIL already claimed that Google's new rules on private life, which entered into force on 1 March, infringed Community law (1995 directive). It called on the US group to suspend its new policy but Google refused. Commissioner Viviane Reding has backed the demand by European regulators. Nonetheless, she has indicated that the Commission would not be entering a new battle against Google. According to the commissioner, it is precisely up to the national regulators to take the measures needed if the company definitively infringes EU rules. (SP/transl.fl)