As Google Hands Over Collected WiFi Data In Germany, France And Spain, Ireland Tells Google To Destroy It
from the mixed-messages dept
We recently covered how the data that Google collected via its Street View WiFi efforts was caught in this weird legal limbo, between privacy laws, data retention laws and rules about destroying evidence. However, it looks like that's getting settled... but in very different ways in different countries. Somehow, Google has worked out a way to hand over the data in Germany, France and Spain... but over in Ireland, Google has been ordered to destroy the data. Not quite sure how this squares with the privacy laws in Germany, France and Spain... but hopefully we'll find out that the data collected by this system was mostly meaningless and we can get over the hype surrounding this whole thing.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: data collection, data retention, europe, france, germany, ireland, privacy, spain, wifi
Companies: google
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WHERE is canada?
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Ireland has it right
Now, I personally believe that they probably shouldn't have been network sniffing even on open networks. However, I don't believe that someone doing the equivalent of taking pictures through my window when I failed to close the drapes is doing anything illegal.
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wake up call
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Suss
Ireland has the right idea, all these other governments I am extremely suspicious of why they want the data, rather then it been destroyed.
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Re: wake up call
/sarc
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