Google given 35 days to delete data

Jimbuna · 06-21-13, 10:10 AM

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

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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 · 06-21-13, 10:23 AM

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

Red October1984 · 06-21-13, 12:26 PM

What could google possibly have that is sensitive...

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

That kind of sensitive?

Wolferz · 06-21-13, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Red October1984

What could google possibly have that is sensitive...

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

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.

Mr Quatro · 06-21-13, 12:31 PM

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 · 06-21-13, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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

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

I would probably say that the data in the "wrong hands" may have unintended consequences,

Wolferz · 06-21-13, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

You going to eat those?

Jimbuna · 06-21-13, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolferz

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.

Agreed

Skybird · 06-21-13, 01:06 PM

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 · 06-21-13, 01:21 PM

The Prisoner

No.2 "We want information".

Patrick MaGoohan once again got it right.

Gerald · 06-21-13, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

The Prisoner

No.2 "We want information".

Patrick MaGoohan once again got it right.

Escape from Alcatraz,

August · 06-21-13, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

...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 · 06-21-13, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

So Microsoft having your search data is better how?

Platapus · 06-21-13, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolferz

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.

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

August · 06-21-13, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

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.

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