{"id":86595063,"date":"2011-03-21T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/france-s-data-privacy-regulator-fines-google-over-street-view\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T07:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T11:23:52","slug":"france-s-data-privacy-regulator-fines-google-over-street-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/france-s-data-privacy-regulator-fines-google-over-street-view\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Data Privacy Regulator Fines Google Over Street View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s data privacy regulator has fined Google a record 100,000 euros ($142,000) over private information that was collected during the company\u2019s Street View panoramic project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google launched the Street View service in 2007 to provide interactive panoramas of major cities across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google admitted in 2010 that along with the photos, their specially quipped cars had also inadvertently picked up Wi-Fi data including passwords and e-mails sent over unencrypted internet connections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s privacy regulator said the fines were necessary to combat the \u201cunfair collection\u201d of private information that could have been used for financial gain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google responded to the fines by once again denying economic benefit from the information. The search engine giant also issued an apology for the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5i8LWOk5EbR94tYyC-4YESoREsbiQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AP <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s data privacy regulator has fined Google a record 100,000 euros ($142,000) over private information that was collected during the company\u2019s Street View panoramic project. &nbsp; Google launched the Street View service in 2007 to provide interactive panoramas of major cities across the globe. &nbsp; Google admitted in 2010 that along with the photos, their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86595063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86595063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86595063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86595063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897295,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86595063\/revisions\/98897295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86595063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86595063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86595063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}