Google cleared of "significant personal" privacy breach by data regulator
The Information Commissioner’s Office has cleared Google of collecting "significant personal" Wi-Fi data while videoing images for its StreetView service, although it warned the search giant was "wrong" to have gathered such information in the first place.
According to new estimates by analyst company Aqute Intelligence that were published by the Guardian, however, the search giant is facing about 28 other StreetView-related law suits or criminal investigations around the world, 11 of which are taking place in the US. Its products have also been subject to bans or threatened bans in at least 23 countries.
But the UK’s ICO said that, following a visit to Google’s premises to assess samples of the ‘payload’ data gathered, it had concluded that the vendor had collected no "meaningful personal details that could be linked to an identifiable person".
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