As require , the quiet brouhaha overGoogle accidentally collecting personal Wi - Fi web detailswhen cruise in the Street View machine has turned into a lawsuit , with two Oregon citizen suing them for potentially trillion .
https://gizmodo.com/google-snooped-on-you-for-three-years-but-is-profound-5539395
Vicki Van Valin and Neil Mertz of Oregon are not only suing Google for collecting their data , but in a twisted logic , actually want the court to stop Google from destroying the information on them and everyone else . You ’d think , particularly after the FTC and European regulatorslaunched attackson Google for keeping Street View photos on their system for too long , those regard by the Wi - Fi data assemblage would in reality need their details wiped for good .
https://gizmodo.com/google-must-delete-raw-uncensored-street-view-photos-w-5482668
If Google edit the information it collected about people ’s networks , then those who establish a causa against the ship’s company wo n’t be able-bodied to raise an injustice was made . The injunction they ’re seeking is both preliminary and lasting .
Van Valin and Mertz could get $ 100 for each daylight their data was held , or $ 10,000 for every violation — plus punitory damages , which is where they ’d get the material money .
No - one can doubt that Google was in the damage , take in this data — but when it was accidental , and they ’ve held their deal up over the error ( with Sergey Brin himself admitting they “ screwed up ” ) , I ca n’t help but experience these hoi polloi are just trying to milk Google for all it ’s worth . [ TechEyeviaThe Next WWW ]
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