According to a recent statement by France's privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), Internet search giant's failure to respond to the recommendations which 27 EU regulators unanimously adopted last October may result in the initiation of "a coordinated repressive action" against the company before this summer.

The CNIL said that if Google does not make dramatic changes to the way in which it manages user data, and does not respond with "precise and effective" answers to the EU regulators' recommendations, it could face a coordinated crackdown by the EU privacy regulators.

As per the CNIL, the proposal pertaining to possible crackdown on Google will likely be voted on by the Article 29 Working Party - a data protection group comprising officials from all the EU member states - towards the end of this month.

While Google has been denying that its new privacy policy - under which the company has unified 60 of its products' individual privacy policies into one single overarching document - had violated the EU law, the CNIL said that data protection authorities in Europe are of the opinion that Google has not given any precise response to their recommendations.

Noting that "the EU data protection authorities are committed to act and continue their investigations," the CNIL said: "Therefore, they propose to set up a working group, lead by the CNIL, in order to coordinate their repressive action which should take place before summer."