Google breached Canada's privacy laws

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from CBC News:



Google Street View cars breached Canadian privacy laws by inappropriately collecting personal information through a "careless error," the federal privacy commissioner has found.

"Our investigation shows that Google did capture personal information — and, in some cases, highly sensitive personal information such as complete e-mails. This incident was a serious violation of Canadians’ privacy rights," Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart stated Tuesday.

Information collected by Google's cars included complete email addresses, user names and passwords, names and residential telephone numbers and addresses, and health details, Stoddart said.

The commissioner has given the company until Feb. 1 to delete all of the improperly gathered information, at which point her office will consider the issue resolved. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/10/19/google-street-view-privacy.html#ixzz12p0MCGfj