Frankfurt: A German privacy regulator has fined Google for illegally recording signals from Wifi networks while it was taking photographs for its Street View service.
Google's roving Street View vans picked up large amounts of personal data such as e-mails, passwords, photos and online chat protocols, said the commissioner for data protection and freedom of information in Hamburg city state, Johannes Caspar.
Caspar fined Google 145,000 euros ($189,700), close to the maximum of 150,000 euros allowed under his mandate but a drop in the ocean for the top search engine provider, which has a stock market value of around $260 billion.
"Cases like this make it clear that the sanctions provided for by the Federal Data Protection Act are totally inadequate for the punishment of such serious breaches of data protection," the commissioner said in a statement....
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11:07 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Tokyo: Concrete rubble litters streets lined with shuttered shops and dark windows. A collapsed roof juts from the ground. A ship sits stranded on a stretch of dirt flattened when the tsunami roared across the coastline. There isn't a person in sight. Google Street View is giving the world a rare glimpse into one of Japan's eerie ghost towns, created when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked a nuclear...
11:19 AM, Mar 28, 2013
The mountains on Google Maps include Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus and Everest Base Camp. ...
06:02 AM, Mar 19, 2013
New Delhi: Google is adding 400,000 kilometres of roads from around the world to Google Maps Street View in what is its biggest update ever. With this Google is doubling the number of its Street View special collections. With this update Google has added more countries to Street View. Users can now explore Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan or Catherine Palace in Russia right on their device screens. No...
06:58 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: While Apple is trying hard to fix the issues with Apple Maps in iOS 6 to point out correctly the places on the earth's surface, Google is taking users the depths of the oceans with its first underwater panoramic images in Google Maps. "With these vibrant and stunning photos you dont have to be a scuba diver"or even know how to swim"to explore and experience six of the...
02:42 PM, Sep 26, 2012
London: Google Inc said on Friday it had not kept its promise to delete all the personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain and other countries in 2010. The US company admitted in May 2010 that its vehicles, which photograph neighborhoods to create street level images, had accidentally collected data from unsecured wireless networks used by residents in more than 30 countries. The failure to...
10:54 AM, Jul 28, 2012
California: Google's online mapping service is incorporating additional images from Antarctica. The new images include flags marking the South Pole and the interiors of the supply cabins built for Ernest Shackleton's and Robert Scott's expeditions early in the 20th century. They are part of Google's Street View program, which offers ground-level, 360-degree panoramic images. The new images add to those Google has made available from the continent since 2010. Google...
10:41 AM, Jul 19, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc is deploying a fleet of small, camera-equipped airplanes above several cities, the Internet search company's latest step in its ambitious and sometimes controversial plan to create a digital map of the world. Google plans to release the first three-dimensional maps for several cities by the end of the year, the company said at a news conference at its San Francisco offices on Wednesday. Google declined to...
07:11 AM, Jun 07, 2012
Artworks from the National Musuem and the National Gallery of Modern Art would now be accessible at the touch of a keystroke. ...
09:31 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangkok: Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand as part of the country's efforts to show tourist hot spots have recovered from last year's floods. But it also marked something of a change of fortunes for Google itself, which has weathered several storms in Asia over its mapping products. Google rolled out 360-degree images of the streets of Bangkok, the resort island of Phuket and the northern...
12:16 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: In the honour of World Forest Day, Google has released images of the Amazon Basin through the Street View feature on Google Maps, thereby by giving viewers a peek inside the Amazon rainforest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. The pictures were captured last August when Brazil and US Street View and Google Earth outreach teams were invited to the Amazon Basin to collect...
01:48 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Nantes: A Frenchman took Google to court on Thursday over a photo published online by its Street View application showing him urinating in his front yard which he believes has made him the laughing stock of his village in rural northwest France. The man, who is aged around 50 and lives in a village of some 3,000 people in the Maine-et-Loire region, is demanding the removal of the photo, in...
12:01 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: Internet giant Google's long awaited and very ambitious project Streetview is ready to map and explore everything on Indian streets with its new application Google Streetview. This software will show you everything from a high rise to a small restaurant. Google Streetview unlike Google earth allows you a 360 degree view of your favourite street. The sophisticated cameras mounted on this vehicle continuously takes photos of a particular...
07:34 AM, Jun 02, 2011
New Delhi: Internet giant Google's long awaited and very ambitious project Streetview is ready to map and explore everything on Indian streets with its new application Google Streetview. This software will show you everything from a high rise to a small restaurant. Google Streetview unlike Google earth allows you a 360 degree view of your favourite street. The sophisticated cameras mounted on this vehicle continuously takes photos of a particular...
07:34 AM, Jun 02, 2011
Bangalore: Google announced its plans to offer Street View of Indian cities on its Maps platform. "We are launching the Street View project from Bangalore as it is the IT capital of India where IT-savvy users will be able to leverage the benefits of the facility optimally," Google India product head Vinay Goel told reporters here at a preview of its latest product. As a user-friendly feature of Google Maps,...
03:50 PM, May 26, 2011
Jerusalem: Google has for years fought allegations that its mapping and photography services infringed on privacy. Now the Internet giant is facing concerns from Israel that the technology could be used for terrorism. Israel announced today it is considering ways for Google Street View to photograph Israeli cities, despite concerns that the popular service could be used by terrorists to plot attacks against sensitive locations or political figures. A team...
04:42 PM, Feb 22, 2011
New York: The Federal Trade Commission is scolding Google Inc. without punishing the Internet search leader for collecting e-mails, passwords and other personal information transmitted over unsecured wireless networks. In a two-page letter released Wednesday, the regulatory agency expressed its displeasure with Google for allowing potentially sensitive information to be scooped up for several years before management realised it. It took an inquiry from German regulators earlier this year for...
11:19 AM, Oct 28, 2010
Rome: Italy has threatened Google with fines of 180,000 euros each time it photographs neighbourhoods without giving clear warning to residents of the presence of its cameras, according to the watchdog tasked with safeguarding privacy in Italy. Italy is the first European country to adopt measures that can punish the California internet giant for collecting images for its popular Street View service that allows users to pan through neighbourhoods and...
12:51 PM, Oct 27, 2010
Google admitted for the first time its Street View cars accidentally collected complete emails and passwords. ...
11:43 AM, Oct 26, 2010
