Google Pays Fine Over Street View Privacy Breach

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Google [CIA] Pays Fine Over Street View Privacy Breach

A Google Street View vehicle collecting imagery on Interstate 66 near Centreville, Va.

By DAVID STREITFELD
Published: March 12, 2013


Google has agreed to pay $7 million as a result of an investigation brought by a coalition of state attorneys general, officials said Tuesday, in one of the largest fines for violating privacy in the digital age.

The fine stems from the Street View case, where Google deployed special vehicles to photograph the houses and offices lining the world’s streets. But for several years the company was also secretly collecting personal information — e-mails, medical and financial records, passwords — as it cruised by. It was data-scooping from millions of unencrypted wireless networks.

“Consumers have a reasonable expectation of privacy,” George Jepsen, Connecticut attorney general, said in a statement Tuesday. “This agreement recognizes those rights and ensures that Google will not use similar tactics in the future to collect personal information without permission from unsuspecting consumers.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/t...ine-over-street-view-privacy-breach.html?_r=0 < click


'Google has agreed to pay $7 million as a result of an investigation'

not

'Google Anti-Constitution subversives face life in prison'


"This agreement recognizes those rights and ensures that Google will not use similar tactics in the future to collect personal information without permission from unsuspecting consumers"


so, in the future, they'll come up with slightly modified tactics to illegally collect personal information without permission from unsuspecting citizens

 

[Anonimous]

Google [CIA] Pays Fine Over Street View Privacy Breach

A Google Street View vehicle collecting imagery on Interstate 66 near Centreville, Va.

By DAVID STREITFELD
Published: March 12, 2013


Google has agreed to pay $7 million as a result of an investigation brought by a coalition of state attorneys general, officials said Tuesday, in one of the largest fines for violating privacy in the digital age.

The fine stems from the Street View case, where Google deployed special vehicles to photograph the houses and offices lining the world’s streets. But for several years the company was also secretly collecting personal information — e-mails, medical and financial records, passwords — as it cruised by. It was data-scooping from millions of unencrypted wireless networks.

“Consumers have a reasonable expectation of privacy,” George Jepsen, Connecticut attorney general, said in a statement Tuesday. “This agreement recognizes those rights and ensures that Google will not use similar tactics in the future to collect personal information without permission from unsuspecting consumers.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/t...ine-over-street-view-privacy-breach.html?_r=0 < click


'Google has agreed to pay $7 million as a result of an investigation'

not

'Google Anti-Constitution subversives face life in prison'


"This agreement recognizes those rights and ensures that Google will not use similar tactics in the future to collect personal information without permission from unsuspecting consumers"


so, in the future, they'll come up with slightly modified tactics to illegally collect personal information without permission from unsuspecting citizens

Plus the embarrasment for the guy paid to drive around in that car.

 

[kenisyes]

Was the fine for taking the pictures or just for the data scooping? I could not tell from the article. I assume the pictures are legal.

There's quite a bit to this. My friend's wife left him three years ago, but the flyover picture still showed her car parked next to his in his trailer's driveway. It still would, except he sold the trailer and they moved it elsewhere. (Both trailer and both cars are still in the picture.)