Google will comply with requests from European regulators to turn over the personal data that its Street View vehicles collected inadvertently. Officials in Germany, France, and Spain have asked Google to share the personal information that the vehicles captured from unencrypted personal networks. The Federal Trade Commission plans to review Google’s data collection activities but, according to The New York Times, U.S regulators “have not expressed the same level of outrage over the incident as European officials have.” In a related story, USA Today reports that Canada is the latest nation to investigate Google’s practices. Link to full story in The New York Times.
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