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Google: Fine of 100,000 Euro for Street View

25 Mar. 2011 | Author: Antonio De Mitri | german

The French data protection agency CNIL has issued a fine of 100,000 Euro against Google. The reason is that Google Street View vehicles did not only record French streets, but also gathered data from WiFi networks, .
Investigations began at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 into the allegations that Google had violated data protection laws. In May 2010, CNIL demanded that the internet giant terminate all collection of data without explicit permission from individuals, as well surrender the gathered information from France.
After analyzing the information, the agency concluded that an enormous amount of personal information had been gathered, such as passwords, email addresses, and emails with sensitive information regarding sexual orientation or health condition.
Because Google has continued to use the information without notifying the users whose data had been gathered, the data protection agency is now demanding a fine of 100,000 Euro. The collection of data has stopped in the vehicles, but mobile devices using Latitude, the GPS locating service from Google, continue to relay data.
The search engine giant won’t really have a chance to bend French laws and now has two months to pay up.

Google: Fine of 100,000 Euro for Street View
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