![]() ![]() ![]() “It is very strange that six years after Google agreed to end this practice and made public service announcements, it’s once again agreeing to do what others had assumed they already had,” said Marc Rotenberg, president of the nonprofit research firm Electronic Privacy Information Center, in an interview with CNN Business. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ bipartisan Senate bill would tell you how much Facebook and Google make from your data Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced the world's largest social network will soon include a new dating feature - while vowing to make privacy protection its top priority in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this aspect of the case, and the company declined to comment on the proposed settlement overall.įacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the annual F8 summit at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on May 1, 2018. It’s unclear why the new settlement includes deleting the data and halting the program, when Google was already required to do that under the 2013 agreement. Google would be required to destroy any remaining data collected via Street View, agree not to use Street View to collect data from wifi networks except with consent, and to create webpages and videos teaching people how to secure their wireless data. This latest proposed settlement includes a similar agreement. The company had previously agreed to halt the collection of network data by the vehicles. ![]() In that settlement, the company agreed to destroy the data collected through Street View and launch a campaign to teach people how to protect their information from wifi snooping. In 2013, Google settled a case brought by 38 states over the same issue for $7 million. The company initially called the data collection “a mistake.” However, investigators found Google engineers built software and embedded it into Street View vehicles to intentionally intercept the data from 2007 to 2010, according to court documents. Google expected to pay multimillion dollar penalty to settle investigation into how YouTube handles kids' data The Federal Trade Commission says a website harvested Facebook information to create 73 million sometimes unflattering profiles. ![]()
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