Google still has Street View WiFi data from UK, several other countries

Google Street View cars have been deployed to 48 countries around the world. David Cesarino On Friday, Google admitted in an e-mail to the British data protection authority (PDF), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), that it was still in possession of a “small portion of payload data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK.” In December 2010, Google said it had deleted all such data in the UK. A person familiar with the matter told Ars by phone on Friday that similar notifications had gone out to Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Australia. Read 9 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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Google still has Street View WiFi data from UK, several other countries

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