Now Spain complains to Google about privacy violations in Street View
Just a day after Google ceo Eric Schmidt complained about competitors’ data security issues, Spain has became the latest country to complain to Google over it’s own privacy violations during the mapping for its “Street View” facility.
A Madrid judge has ordered a Google representative to appear in court in October as part of an investigation into whether the company committed a “computer crime” while taking photographs of city streets in Spain.
The service launched in more than 30 countries provides internet users with street level views of public buildings and private homes.
The Spanish probe comes following Google’s acknowledgement in May that the technology used by its “Street View” cars had also inadvertently recorded fragments of people’s online activities broadcast over wireless networks for the past four years.
The company said it had collected information from non secure Wi-Fi networks across the globe, but it maintains it never used the data and said it hasn’t broken any laws.
Judge Raquel Fernandino has issued the subpoena following a complaint filed in June by private internet watchdog and technology consulting agency Apedanica.
Google also is facing investigations or inquiries over this practice, which it says it has now discontinued, in the United States, Germany and Australia.
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