Street View Piles Agony for Google in Europe
posted on 27 October 2010 | posted in
Business and Finance
At first, there were reports on how Googe' Street View application inadvertently got access to British user data that involved personal email username and passwords. As if that was enough, there are reports on similar privacy breach happening across other European countries like Spain and Czechoslovakia.
Germany has had its share of issues with the Street View application and so has been the case in Italy as well. All this brings you to a question that is seldom asked. Do we really have any sort of privacy these days? I mean, our email addresses are on sale as part of mailing lists and now Google comes up with an application that is so strong that it can collect user data over wireless networks.
Makes me believe that Google would have definitely coined a very strong sniffing application, but the concern of accessing private user data without letting the user know is actually a legal breach of privacy in most European countries.
We at the Fuel Card Company do hope that technical advancements do not compromise an individual's rights to live a respectful life.
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