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Google Privacy ‘Red Team’ Formed To Avoid Future Gaffes

Posted on August 23, 2012July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Tom Jowitt reports:

Google is seeking to recruit data experts for what it is calling a ‘privacy red team’, as the search engine giant looks to avoid any future privacy mishaps.

Google has been at the centre of privacy rows for a number of years now. Perhaps its most serious privacy blunder came in May 2010 when Google admitted its Street View cars had unwittingly collected personal information from citizens’ Wi-Fi networks. The so-called ‘WiSpy’ incident has dogged Google for years now, and in July it admitted it had still not deleted all the data it had collected, prompting fresh privacy watchdog investigations.

Read more on TechWeek Europe.

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