Topic: Google Street View
Google said on Wednesday that it will appeal to Switzerland's highest court against a ruling ordering the Internet giant to ensure that all people and cars pictured on Street View are unrecognisable.The official Swiss data protection watchdog took Google to court in ...
Belgium became Thursday the latest European country to investigate Google's Street View picture map after cars taking pictures for the programme collected private data."We have received a complaint from the privacy protection committee and we have opened an investigation," federal prosecutor's spokesman ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection regulator has fined Google 100,000 euros for collecting private data from wireless networks when its camera-equipped cars gathered footage for its on-line map service Street View.The Commission nationale de l'information et des libertes (CNIL) told Google ...
The US state of Connecticut said Friday it would hold negotiations with Google over the collection of private wireless data by its Street View mapping cars and not take the Internet giant to court."This is a good result for the people of ...
Google has agreed to delete private emails and passwords mistakenly picked up from wireless networks in Britain by its Street View cars, the information commissioner said Friday.The US Internet giant has also agreed to improve the way it trains staff on data ...
Google puts images of 20 German cities on Street View after privacy disputeInternet users can now take a virtual tour of 20 of Germany's largest cities on Google Inc.'s panoramic Street View program, but they won't always get a full view due ...
"Last month, Google disclosed that its Street View cars collected passwords, emails and other personal information wirelessly from unsuspecting people across the country," said Michele Ellison, Enforcement Bureau Chief of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)."In light of their public disclosure, we can ...
The newspaper said the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began a probe earlier this year into whether the Internet giant broke federal laws when its street-mapping service harvested consumers' personal information.The FCC was asked in May by the Electronic Privacy Information Center to ...
Britain is the latest in a series of countries to condemn Google after the cars, which take photos for the search engine's free online mapping service, mistakenly picked up private emails and passwords from wireless networks.Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said Google's British ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Web search giant Google broke UK law by harvesting emails, Internet addresses and passwords while collecting data for its Street View maps service, Britain's Information Commissioner said on Wednesday.But the body charged with upholding information rights in the UK ...
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