
I remember that on Habré, the conflict that flared up between Google and the government bodies of many European countries was covered quite well. Then the corporation caught the fact that cars photographing the streets of cities, at the same time collected data on open wireless networks. Fragments of this data (gigabytes and gigabytes) were transferred to the corporation's servers. France, Germany and some other countries began to sue the "Corporation of Good", and have made a decree obliging the corporation to delete this data from their servers. But some data has not yet been deleted.
Recall that the collected data included passwords and email addresses of users working in open wireless networks. According to Google representatives, all these data were not deleted due to the human factor (in fact, this whole problem arose as a result of the error of some of the engineers of the corporation). And the data were collected not only in Great Britain, France and Germany, but also in Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia.
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The corporation admitted its mistake, but at the same time, claims that none of the data collected in this way was used for commercial purposes. Now the company is committed to checking which data has not been deleted. After some time, the relevant government authorities of the affected countries will be notified of the status.
So far it is unclear when all this data will be deleted final.
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mashable