Saturday, July 28, 2012

Google gaffe: Search giant fails to delete private Street View data...

Google Inc. says “human error” prevented it from destroying all the private data its Street View vehicles collected in the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia.

In its letter to the UK privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the search giant reported Friday it still had some data that should have been deleted in December 2010.

“Google has recently confirmed that it still has in its possession a small portion of payload data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK. Google apologizes for this error,” Peter Fleisher of the company’s Global Privacy Counsel wrote to ICO’s Steve Eckersley, the head of enforcement. “We have determined that we continue to have payload data from the UK and other countries. We are in the process of notifying the relevant authorities in those countries.”

Google has always maintained that the collection of private data was unintentional. But the ICO originally found that such collection was illegal and forced the company to change its procedures. Also, because the UK authority asked for all sensitive data to be deleted and assumed that the company was going to comply, no prosecutions followed. Full story...

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