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Germany’s Complicated Relationship With Google Street View - 23 avril 2013
Germany is one of the most privacy-sensitive countries in the world. So when Google started taking pictures of buildings and homes for its Street View maps, some people were outraged, even though it was legal.
Then, when Johannes Caspar, the data protection supervisor in Hamburg, Germany, discovered that Google (...)
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Google’s Wi-Fi Snooping Settlement is Really, Really Awful - 27 mars 2013
The recent settlement [PDF] between 38 states and Google over the company’s Wi-Fi snooping fiasco sure is puzzling. While the settlement, called an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, does little to punish Google for accidentally slurping up massive amounts of content from wireless networks using its roaming Street (...)
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Google fined, will beef up privacy training in Street View settlement - 13 mars 2013
Google will institute enhanced employee privacy training and create a public campaign about the importance of securing wireless networks as part of a $7 million settlement with state officials who were investigating the company’s controversial Street View program, the officials announced Tuesday.
The settlement, (...)
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Street View : amende contre Google aux Etats-Unis - 13 mars 2013
Le groupe américain Google a accepté de payer une amende de 7 millions de dollars pour avoir recueilli des informations non autorisées via son service de cartographie Street View, selon un accord avec la justice américaine rendu public mardi 12 mars.
Dans le cadre d’un accord négocié avec 38 Etats américains, le géant (...)
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Google nearing $7 million settlement - 10 mars 2013
Google is nearing a deal in which it would pay $7 million to resolve investigations with more than 30 state attorneys general over its controversial Street View program, in which it captured data from private WiFi signals while taking street-level images throughout the world, said a person familiar with the (...)
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Street View : Google paie 7 millions de dollars pour éviter une plainte - 10 mars 2013
Accusé d’avoir enregistré illégalement des données privées via des réseaux WiFi non protégés, le service Google Street View a fait l’objet de multiples enquêtes dans le monde. Google a en particulier été condamné par la CNIL et la FCC, respectivement à des amendes de 100 000 euros et 25 000 dollars. Récemment, Google a sorti le (...)
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Quand Google vous fait tout faire avec Google - 1er novembre 2012
Visiblement, les accusations d’abus de position de position dominante dont Google fait l’objet ne l’empêchent pas d’utiliser comme argument marketing ce qui lui est le plus reproché : retourner comme résultats prioritaires les réponses qu’il héberge lui-même plutôt que celles hébergées par des solutions concurrentes. Comme (...)
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EU gives Google four months to amend privacy policy - 16 octobre 2012
Google has four months to make its privacy policy comply with requests from European Union data protection watchdogs or start facing the possibility of disciplinary action at a national level.
France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique, working on behalf of the EU’s 27 national data regulators, said on Tuesday (...)
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Google : a paragon of internet virtue no more - 14 août 2012
The latest Google scandal may see the firm’s slide into the dark side become irreversible in the eyes of the public
When the US Federal Trade Commission slapped a fine of $22.5m on the search giant Google last week, it was easy to dismiss as relatively insignificant against a worldwide profit of nearly $3bn. But (...)
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Google to pay record $22.5m fine to FTC over Safari tracking - 9 août 2012
Internet giant admits it tracked iPhone, iPad and Mac users by circumventing the privacy protections on Safari web browsers
Google is to pay a record $22.5m fine to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US after admitting that it tracked users of Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Mac computers by circumventing the (...)
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Google Failed to Delete Street View Data in France - 1er août 2012
The French data protection authorities asked Google on Tuesday to examine private information that cars taking pictures for its Street View service collected, after Google acknowledged that it had retained some of the information despite promising to delete it.
The request by the French privacy protection agency, (...)
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Street View : la CNIL demande à examiner les données conservées par Google - 31 juillet 2012
Au cours de contrôles opérés en 2009 et 2010, la CNIL avait constaté que la société Google collectait, depuis ses véhicules dédiés au service Street View, des données sur les réseaux Wi-Fi. Ces contrôles avaient en effet révélé divers manquements, notamment la captation, à l’insu des personnes concernées, de données dite "de (...)
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Street View : Google reconnaît avoir gardé "par erreur" des données personnelles - 30 juillet 2012
Street View continue de faire parler de lui, deux ans après le début de la controverse sur les données collectées par les Google Cars. Dans une lettre adressée à la CNIL britannique, le géant américain a découvert que certaines informations personnelles ont été conservées par erreur. Il se dit prêt à les supprimer en (...)
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Google ’in breach’ of UK data privacy agreement - 28 juillet 2012
Google has admitted that it had not deleted users’ personal data gathered during surveys for its Street View service.
The data should have been wiped almost 18 months ago as part of a deal signed by the firm in November 2010.
Google has been told to give the data to the UK’s Information Commissioner (ICO) for (...)
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Google : we failed to delete all Streetview data - 28 juillet 2012
’Human error’ prevented Google from deleting all the data it collected from Streetview snooping, the search giant has admitted.
Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted that it did not in fact delete all the data, which could include passwords and emails, (...)
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Google faces new Street View data controversy - 28 juillet 2012
Search giant admits it has not deleted all of the data it secretly collected from internet users around the UK
Google is facing a fresh privacy blunder after it admitted it had not deleted all of the private data, including emails and passwords, it secretly collected from internet users around the UK.
The search (...)
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Google facing force of aggressive E.U. regulators - 24 juillet 2012
Europe may be a financial disaster and a faded military force, but in at least one arena it has emerged as champ : Regulators here are challenging the power of America’s technology titans. And they are winning.
Google is most squarely in the crosshairs as its officials negotiate furiously in hopes of avoiding a $4 (...)
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Nouvelles technologies, les brèches dans la vie privée se diversifient - 19 juin 2012
Géolocalisation, vidéosurveillance, dossier médical électronique ou passeport biométrique,... Avec les nouvelles technologies, les brèches dans le respect de la vie privée sont multiples et multiformes. Tour d’horizon en Suisse.
La géolocalisation est partout
Depuis quelques années, les offres de géolocalisation (...)
Google faces new investigation over privacy claims - 13 juin 2012
Google is to be reinvestigated over new claims that it deliberately collected personal data, including emails and passwords, while it was capturing images for its Streetview Maps service in Britain.
Google agreed to delete all the information that had been collected in November 2010, telling the Information (...)
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UK reopens probe into Google’s Street View data capture - 12 juin 2012
Google is back under investigation after gathering personal data while cameras on its cars took pictures for its UK Street View service.
The Information Commissioner’s Office previously dropped a probe into the affair after being told limited data had been "mistakenly collected".
However, it said it had since (...)
