Google Broke U.K. Data Law, Privacy Regulator Says
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Google Inc. violated Britain’s data- protection law when its Street View mapping unit inadvertently gathered personal e-mails and passwords from unsecured wireless networks, the U.K.’s privacy regulator said today.
Google disclosed the security breach in May and said in an Oct. 22 blog post that while the data it collected was mostly fragmentary it included entire e-mails and URLs. The error was a “significant breach” of the U.K.’s Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office said today in a statement.