Mexico's federal transparency body said on Tuesday it had initiated proceedings to impose sanctions on the Mexican unit of Google Inc for possible breach of the country's data protection law. The Federal Institute for Information Access and Data Protection (IFAI) said it had taken the step following a request from an unidentified person.
In a statement, the IFAI said it received the request in September 2014 after Google Mexico ignored the person's wishes.
The institute noted that in December 2014 it had tried to make the company comply with the request. But that failed, it said, after . . .
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