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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Fri Jun 21, 2013, 10:25 AM Jun 2013

UK regulator orders Google to delete private data

Source: Yahoo News / AP

LONDON (AP) — Britain's data regulator has ordered Google to delete personal data scooped up in its Street View project — or face contempt of court.

The Information Commissioner's Office on Friday served Google Inc. with an enforcement notice. Google now has 35 days to kill material hoovered up in the project that featured camera-toting vehicles shooting images of the world's streets.

To make sense of the pictures, Google had to be able to precisely place where the properties being photographed were located. Using a computer program, the vehicles taking the images used local Wi-Fi outlets to place the properties, and in doing so, collected data from the Wi-Fi networks.

Google promised to destroy the data but found a cache of the material was found last year. It pledged again it would comply.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-regulator-orders-google-delete-private-data-125919025.html



Google escapes fine over Street View Wi-Fi snooping

Google will not be fined for harvesting personal data from home and business Wi-Fi networks via its fleet of Street View cars but could face criminal chages if it does not delete it, Britain's privacy watchdog has announced.

The Information Commissioner's Office angered privacy campaigners by saying Google had not caused enough harm to warrant a fine of up to £500,000.

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The ICO had previously closed the case after accepting Google’s assurances that the privacy breach was purely accidental and false claim that it had destroyed all the data.

“[We are] placing a legal requirement on Google to delete the remaining payload data identified last year within the next 35 days and immediately inform the ICO if any further disks are found,” said Stephen Eckersley, who led the ICO’s re-opened investigation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10134618/Google-escapes-fine-over-Street-View-Wi-Fi-snooping.html
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UK regulator orders Google to delete private data (Original Post) dipsydoodle Jun 2013 OP
"It pledged again it would comply" Google CEO exasperated at everyone’s preoccupation with privacy Catherina Jun 2013 #1
The actual issue dipsydoodle Jun 2013 #3
How dare the UK tell a corporation what to do? Let's make sure that doesn't happen in the USA. L0oniX Jun 2013 #2
Sunday? I thought they met on Thursday.... Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2013 #5
"the privacy breach was purely accidental" Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2013 #4
So, the UK still holds true to the ideals that the US once had. NorthCarolina Jun 2013 #6
Is it too late to rejoin Britain? L0oniX Jun 2013 #7

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
1. "It pledged again it would comply" Google CEO exasperated at everyone’s preoccupation with privacy
Fri Jun 21, 2013, 10:31 AM
Jun 2013
Google CEO Larry Page expressed exasperation last month at everyone’s preoccupation with privacy and data ownership and related bugaboos that often get in Google’s way. He stated in the most recent shareholders’ call that “you don’t collapse in terror that people might be wearing [Google Glass] in the bathroom, just like you don’t collapse in terror that someone will hold up a cellphone in the bathroom.”

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/06/concern-about-how-google-glass-works-goes-international/


Exasperated.

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
3. The actual issue
Fri Jun 21, 2013, 10:39 AM
Jun 2013

in some of the street views actually concerned exactly who was whose bathroom and whose car was parked on someones drive when the shots were captured.

 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
2. How dare the UK tell a corporation what to do? Let's make sure that doesn't happen in the USA.
Fri Jun 21, 2013, 10:33 AM
Jun 2013

If I need a sarcasm tag then you need to attend the Sunday meeting of the Obama zombie worshippers.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
4. "the privacy breach was purely accidental"
Fri Jun 21, 2013, 10:41 AM
Jun 2013

Oh sure,...a program to locate unsecured networks and grab whatever it could find off of any system it encountered was just an accident.

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