No stranger to controversy privacy, Internet giant Google has been given 35 days by the Office of the information Commissioner of the United Kingdom to delete the data it collects 'in error' while taking Street View photos 2010. Otherwise, place the company in "contempt of court", causing criminal charges.
office reopened its investigation into Google last year in response to learn about the company's data error collected 'unsecured wireless networks in cities. The survey found other discs containing private data that Google had already promised to destroy. The company admitted that he had "accidentally" kept hold of the discs, which prompted the ICO to notify Google that it must be said that if all other drives found.
The company has managed to escape a penalty through the Bureau's decision that the shares are not from a company level and that "the damage caused to individuals by the breach fails to reach the level required to issue a monetary decision penalty'.The UK is at odds with the decisions taken by other countries with similar privacy concerns of Google, where heavy fines were collected. The Federal Communications Commission of the United States requested a fine of $ 25,000 last year, the engineer who wrote the software code designed to gather information told the commission that at least two other employees - including a senior - were aware of the program. The FCC found data from 30 countries that have included e-mails, instant messages and log-in information identification and accused Google to delay the investigation for months.
Across Europe, similar stories are emerging. France recently imposed a three-month period for the company to improve its privacy policies on the Internet, and Spain and Germany have already imposed fines, causing activist Nick Perkins UK Big Brother Watch to observe that the lack of a fine in Britain could give the impression that "our privacy is somehow less worthy of protection.
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