The Associated Press reports: Spain is investigating Google over its “Street View” mapping feature, becoming the latest country to tangle with the Internet search giant over concerns it violated people’s privacy while taking shots of city streets. Madrid Judge Raquel Fernandino has issued a subpoena for an Oct. 4 appearance by a Google representative, Google…
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Google Gets Rebuke From Privacy Watchdogs for Street View Plans in Germany
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Google Inc. was criticized by Germany data privacy officials over plans to give German property owners a four-week deadline to stop their buildings showing up on the company’s Street View mapping service. […] “Objections should be possible at all times,” Germany’s Federal Commissioner of Data Protection Peter Schaar said on his blog…
Street View: South Korea Police Raid Google Office; Street View to Launch in More German Cities
Choe Sang-Hun reports: The South Korean police raided the offices of Google Korea on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether the company illegally collected and stored personal wireless data. […] “We will investigate Google Korea officials and scrutinize the data we confiscated today” to see whether company has violated the country’s laws on…
UK: ICO Statement on Google WiFi data
A spokesperson for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said: “The ICO has visited Google’s premises to assess samples of the ‘pay-load’ data it inadvertently collected. Whilst Google considered it unlikely that it had collected anything other than fragments of content, we wanted to make our own judgement as to the likelihood that significant personal data…