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Google Still In Possession of Data, Thought Destroyed, Collected from Street Mapping Cars

In May 2010, Google hit the headlines when it was revealed that street mapping cars had accidentally collected around 600GB of payload data from unsecured wireless networks around the globe. The news caused a privacy storm and led to legal actions in numerous countries. In the United Kingdom, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) took a [...]