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Ridiculous fine for Google Street View car scandal

Remember the scandal with the car Google Street View collecting illegally data from unlocked networks Wi-Fi between 2008 and 2010? If not, read this.

The case was heard in Germany , and Google was fined 145,000 euros for “one of the biggest violations of data protection,” as one of the prosecutors.

street view carThe criminal prosecution against the US company was dropped last fall, but regulators protection data took over the case, hoping to get some money from
Google.

Google , of course, claims that the Street View was unaware that data.

Thefine may seem very large for current salaries in Greece (see unified salary scale)  , but for Google it is not serious.


alone In the first three months of the year, the company had 14.4 billion
in revenue with net profits reaching $3.9 billion.

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