Google admits it did not delete Street View data
Source: Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday it had not kept its promise to delete all the personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain and other countries in 2010.
The U.S. company admitted in May 2010 that its vehicles, which photograph neighborhoods to create street level images, had accidentally collected data from unsecured wireless networks used by residents in more than 30 countries.
The failure to comply with a promise to delete all the data was notified to Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which said the fact that the data still existed appeared to breach an undertaking signed by Google in November 2010.
"The ICO is clear that this information should never have been collected in the first place and the company's failure to secure its deletion as promised is a cause for concern," the ICO said.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/google-admits-did-not-delete-street-view-data-153025384--sector.html?_esi=1
Remember this when you consider buying a Google/Android product or 'free' service.
They will spy on you. They will lie about it.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)They "accidentally" collected the data, and "accidentally" failed to delete it?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)F-F-F-F-F-F-F-Friends?
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)that doesn't spy on its customers (and everyone/thing else it can manage).
Disappointing but; when there seems to be an entire generation of people out there who believe privacy is an outdated concept; hardly surprising. I've pretty much given up the battle.
ChromeFoundry
(3,270 posts)collects time-based GSM location and Access Points MAC addresses with signal strength and sends it back to Apple every 12-hours.
Google updates StreetView about once every couple of years. Better WarDriving databases have been available for a lot of years.
Apple gets a global map of Access Points, SSIDs and AP Vendor data as well as your proximity every 12 hours... And uses your data plan to send it back to them. Who's the bigger dick?