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 Googles 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 ICOs re-opened investigation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10134618/Google-escapes-fine-over-Street-View-Wi-Fi-snooping.html
Catherina
(35,568 posts)http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/06/concern-about-how-google-glass-works-goes-international/
Exasperated.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)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)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)....musta been the Nader crowd I saw.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Oh sure,...a program to locate unsecured networks and grab whatever it could find off of any system it encountered was just an accident.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)Who would'a thunk it. Interesting.