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The cartel office sent parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL), 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 sufficient choice as to whether and to what extent they agree to the far-reaching processing of their data across services.
A spokesperson for Google said the company would continue to engage constructively with the German regulator to try to resolve its concerns.
“People expect us to operate our business responsibly — by both maintaining product experiences that put users first and updating our services continuously to meet the expectations of regulators,” the spokesperson added.
