Google's Street Car Views, have been harversting emails, passwords and wi-fi addresses. Peter Fleischer, Google's Global Privacy Counsel, said the firm was "profoundly sorry for mistakenly collecting payload data in the UK".
Google said it happened as the result of code written by one of its engineers being mistakenly incorporated in the Street View software.
"Since we announced our mistake in May we have co-operated closely with the Information Commissioner's Office [ICO] and worked to improve our internal controls," said Mr Fleischer."We are in the process of confirming that there are no outstanding legal obligations upon us to retain the data, and will then ensure that it is quickly and safely deleted."
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) originally declared that “Google’s Street View” was ‘Not an Infringement of UK privacy Laws’. It was Canada’s condemnation of Google by Jennifer Stoddart the Privacy Commissioner, who said "This incident was a serious violation of Canadian's privacy rights", which provoked the UK Information Commissioner to make a “U” turn on the original ruling which said that no data breach had occurred.
The new ruling is that there was a "significant breach" of the Data Protection Act when Google collected personal data via its Street View cars, the UK's Information Commissioner has ruled.
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