Google confirms it still has a ‘small portion’ of Street View WiFi data, apologizes

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It has actually looked like Google was close to putting its Street View snooping debate behind it a couple of times now, however one thing or an additional keeps bringing it back to the forefront. Today, it’s an admission from Google that it hasn’t erased all of the so-called payload data in question after all. That revelation can be found in a letter from Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleisher to Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Workplace (or ICO), in which Fleisher states that Google is still in possession of a “small section of payload data collected by our Street View automobiles in the UK.” Fleisher adds that Google “apologizes for this mistake,” and states that the information was uncovered after a considerable assessment of its Street View information that it has been carrying out in recent months. For its part, the ICO has acknowleged that it received the letter, and notes that the information was supposed to have actually been deleted in December of 2010, bring that “the fact that a couple of this info still exists appears to breach the challenge to the ICO signed by Google in November 2010.” You can easily discover both statements in full at the ICO link below.

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