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Google's Privacy Debacle Reaches its Peak

Google's Privacy Debacle Reaches its Peak
Recently, Google seems to be getting quite a bit of rekindled heat, over some private data it collected without the necessary permissions, in more than thirty nations.

The British Information Commissioner's Office has been asked to take a closer look at the evidence that Google made available this year, after the company admitted that cars carrying Internet eavesdropping gear were sent to take photos, for its Street View mapping service.

Along with U.K, Canada also seems to believe the fact that Google may have indeed collected a large amount of sensitive information and not just "fragmentary data," as the company had earlier indicated.

Canada's Commissioner of Privacy, Jennifer Stoddart, said that "Some of the captured information was very sensitive, such as a list that provided the names of people suffering from certain medical conditions, along with their telephone numbers and addresses," she went on to say that, "It is likely thousands of Canadians were affected."

Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice president of engineering and research, had this to say, "It's clear from those inspections that while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire e-mails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords."

Furthermore, Christine Chen, Google spokeswoman, defended the company by stating that Google would want nothing more but, "to protect the privacy of those whose data we mistakenly collected."

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