Google given 35 days to delete data

[Jimbuna]

This judgement was inevitable but I'm wondering just how 'sensitive' some of the collected data was.


Google has been given 35 days to delete any remaining data it "mistakenly collected" while taking pictures for its Street View service, or face criminal proceedings.
But the UK Information Commissioner's Office did not impose a fine.
Its investigation into Google reopened last year after further revelations about the data taken from wi-fi networks.
During that inquiry, additional discs containing private data were found.
Google had previously pledged to destroy all data it had collected, but admitted last year that it had "accidentally" retained the additional discs.
The ICO has told the search giant it must inform it if any further discs of information are discovered.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166

[Wolferz]

By the ICO and FCC standards, they should be going after Booz-Allen-Hamilton too.:hmmm:

[Red October1984]

What could google possibly have that is sensitive...

They only control most of the internet searching needs...

:o That kind of sensitive?

[Wolferz]

What could google possibly have that is sensitive...

They only control most of the internet searching needs...

:o That kind of sensitive?

They were accidentally, on purpose, collecting info from unsecured WiFi networks.

The NSA targets that kind of data via the almighty Patriot Act. But a private sector business like Google is breaking the law when they do it.

I smell hypocrisy. I say to these bureaucrats.... Lead by example. Not the "don't do as I do. Do as I say do" attitude.:stare:

[Mr Quatro]

I suspected google was up to no good when they asked me to check in with a user name ...

they wanted my cookies ... so I said, "no" and went back to Bing

[Gerald]

This judgement was inevitable but I'm wondering just how 'sensitive' some of the collected data was.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166I would probably say that the data in the "wrong hands" may have unintended consequences,:hmmm:

[Wolferz]

I suspected google was up to no good when they asked me to check in with a user name ...

they wanted my cookies ... so I said, "no" and went back to Bing

You going to eat those?


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[Jimbuna]

They were accidentally, on purpose, collecting info from unsecured WiFi networks.

The NSA targets that kind of data via the almighty Patriot Act. But a private sector business like Google is breaking the law when they do it.

I smell hypocrisy. I say to these bureaucrats.... Lead by example. Not the "don't do as I do. Do as I say do" attitude.:stare:

Agreed :yep:

[Skybird]

The servers are in the US. I wonder which intelligence agency ranks as the bigger one: the NSA, or Google.

One has to ikjagtinbe that. Google operates beyoind and outside the laws of countries so very oftenb, and it gets away with it. The people, on the opther hand, care more about police and courts, than about Google m- ALTHOUGH GOOGLE COLLECTSW MORE DATA ON THEM AND KNOWS MORE ABOUT THEM THAN GOVERNMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Date is knowledge, knowledge about people is power. Eiether the data gets used to sell them to the highest bid, and make a fortune, or the data gets used by oneself.

Absolute data translates into absollute power about people.

Next time somebody of you feels like needing to defend "democracy" or making statements regarding "checks and balances", get aware of how absurd and self-contradictory that is if you happen to use and like Google services at the same time.

Nobody should be given so much insight into people'S life. Not governments. Not the secret police. Not private companie with a de facto monopoly status and zero monitoring of their activities. What Google (and Feacebook and Twitter and the ikes) have acchieved, is what the StaSi or KGB and institutions like that always dreamed of: total surveillance - and the targetted subjects loving it.

[STEED]

The Prisoner

No.2 "We want information".


Patrick MaGoohan once again got it right.

[Gerald]

The Prisoner

No.2 "We want information".


Patrick MaGoohan once again got it right. Escape from Alcatraz,:O:

[August]

...zero monitoring of their activities.

I would think the existence of a court order is proof that the above statement is a wild exaggeration.

[TarJak]

I suspected google was up to no good when they asked me to check in with a user name ...

they wanted my cookies ... so I said, "no" and went back to Bing

So Microsoft having your search data is better how?

[Platapus]

The NSA targets that kind of data via the almighty Patriot Act. But a private sector business like Google is breaking the law when they do it.

I smell hypocrisy. I say to these bureaucrats.... Lead by example. Not the "don't do as I do. Do as I say do" attitude.:stare:


There are many things that are legal for a government to do that a private business can't do.

[August]

There are many things that are legal for a government to do that a private business can't do.

More of those things every day it seems.

[Skybird]

A UK court has no access to servers located n the Us, August. You may trust in paper stuff having authority, and stamps and paragraphs and all that. I have not. Past record of Google in many countries supports me in that view. And in the US, your laws protect it even more, since the American laws protecting companies' profit interests as kind of a matter of private things of theirs are more tailored for business and against consumers' s right for data and privacy protection than anywhere else in the West.

A govenrment'S services at leats in theory is being "checked" and monitored by the socalled electorate, whatever that idea on paper may be worth in reality. But private businesses - escape that system while having a monopoly status.

And when their are only monopolists and cartels sharing the market, than market also does not keep the black sheep in check. And these sheep we are talking here are special. They are eating lions for breakfast.

So that court - is a mouse that tried to roar. Will not make a difference regarding Google's policies and businesses. And that data sets - the genie is out of the bottle already.

No relax. :)
"Who monitors the birds?" - The best episode in that whole series, "Space":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy5dlQnxLgk

[Jimbuna]

Even more concerning...


The paper said GCHQ was able to boast a larger collection of data than the US, tapping in to 200 fibre-optic cables to give it the ability to monitor up to 600 million communications every day.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23004080

[Wolferz]

There are many things that are legal for a government to do that a private business can't do.


True dat but, it doesn't make it any less wrong or hypocritical.

The POTUS campaigned on a platform of transparency.
Now it's as clear as mud.

[HundertzehnGustav]

for the stuff they keep doing, Google (all of them) ahould get 24 hours to erase themselves from this planet...
or be branded outcasts of society, free for all to shoot...

and then sent to texas.:D

same with the other snoopers, the NSA and their british brothers.

[Spiced_Rum]

I am not worried about Google. I just want them to update their streetview; I have a new car but whenever I look at my street it still has my old car parked on the drive.

[Platapus]

and then sent to texas.:D



There is no need for unnecessarily cruel punishment. We still have our humanity.

[HundertzehnGustav]

...is overrated.
Dr. House.
:hmmm::)