When Google was preparing service Street View, the feature that gives a 360-degree view of the selected address, gathered sökjätten simultaneously collected and stored personal data like e-mails, pictures and passwords from wireless networks.
fines Hamburg’s data protection agency Google for the foul which occurred between 2008 and 2010.
The fine has been set 145 000 – maximum is € 150 000 – which according to the bureau chief Johannes Caspar not sufficiently dissuasive.
“As long as the violation of the rules will be discounted, it is almost impossible to maintain compliance with the laws in the digital world where the risk of violation is high,” writes Caspar said in a statement, according to the Associated Press.
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Google admits foul , but says that it has never been its intention to collect or save data and have deleted the data.
“In my opinion, it is one of the most serious breaches of data protection legislation so far discovered. Google has been working to clarify the approach … but it lasted for so long and to such an extent provides a single conclusion: the company’s internal control mechanisms failed completely, “writes Johannes Caspar.
head of Hamburg’s data protection agency now hoping for more serious sentences: In the context of the future regulatory framework “European General Data Protection Regulation” discusses maximum fines of 2 percent of sales.
“It would be economically severe punishment,” writes Caspar.
Google reported a profit of equivalent to more than 20 billion for the first quarter of 2013.
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