Google Fined 145,000 Euros Over Wi-Fi Data Collection in Germany

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Google was fined 145,000 euros ($189,230) by a German regulator for collecting wireless-network data by its cars taking photos for the Street View service.

Google’s cars from 2008 to 2010 captured the data, including contents of e-mails, passwords, photos and chat protocols, Hamburg data regulator Johannes Caspar said. He had reopened the probe after prosecutors dropped a related criminal case last year. “In my view, this is one of the biggest data protection rules violations known,” said Caspar. Google’s “internal control mechanisms must have severely failed.”


Google Fined 145,000 Euros Over Wi-Fi Data Collection in Germany