It seems that fishing with the wrong net can cause problems even for giant companies like Google. The DW-World says that they had to apologize for collecting personal data like fragments of emails and passwords by mistake when passing with their camera car in the streets. The Information Commissioner’s Office had found Google guilty of a “significant breach of the Data Protection Act”, but as it was very difficult to prove it, they wouldn’t seek monetary damages. A professor from the Oxford Internet Institute, says that the most important thing about this conflict is that Google promised to improve data protection training for its employees and create more privacy documents in the future. It seems that Google is very keen on pleasing countries like Germany regards privacy policies, and in fact their privacy research has been done at first in Munich. They know that if they please a tough market like that, they will be fine all around the world.
Claudia Koch 