I travel around the world of Google Car is causing various reactions by the authorities in several European countries. The subject of the dispute are the effects of "unwanted" related to privacy of the service Street View: the images were taken with the use of special cars modified (mostly second-generation Opel Astra) that Google has unleashed on the streets in recent years to photographing entire cities, towns, buildings of some interest, monuments and more.
In France, these images will be expensive for Google, at least 100,000 euro: in fact amounts to such fine that the "Commission Nationale Informatiques et Libertés", the French organization that deals with issues related to information technology, fined the group in Mountain View . For the largest search engines do is appeal to the council of state, where to defend his case and overturn a ruling that it could lead to similar initiatives in other countries, complicating even more the position of the group and its context online mapping service.
Google is a success for Germany instead of just the past few hours has given the green light after a few months ago that the Berlin government had imposed his "no" to photographs of the Google Car. Already long ago Google had come under fire for having entered accidentally in possession of confidential data belonging to some users, data such as passwords, access data and other parameters related to Wi-Fi active in areas where the cars Google are found to pass, with the result that the software available on machines installed in the car was able to catalog this information.
According to the indictment, as the system of the Google car was able to save as many as 600 GB of data in only 16.8 GB in France, among which there would be a good number of email messages exchanged by users through the Wi-Fi hot spots detected by Google. Despite the justifications of the U.S., which has repeatedly insisted that he came into possession of this information sub pages unintentional and accidental, as well as having guaranteed to be prepared to destroy all the data had wrongly, the French Commission has decided to punish Google as responsible for what is a real invasion of privacy. 
In France, these images will be expensive for Google, at least 100,000 euro: in fact amounts to such fine that the "Commission Nationale Informatiques et Libertés", the French organization that deals with issues related to information technology, fined the group in Mountain View . For the largest search engines do is appeal to the council of state, where to defend his case and overturn a ruling that it could lead to similar initiatives in other countries, complicating even more the position of the group and its context online mapping service.
Google is a success for Germany instead of just the past few hours has given the green light after a few months ago that the Berlin government had imposed his "no" to photographs of the Google Car. Already long ago Google had come under fire for having entered accidentally in possession of confidential data belonging to some users, data such as passwords, access data and other parameters related to Wi-Fi active in areas where the cars Google are found to pass, with the result that the software available on machines installed in the car was able to catalog this information.
According to the indictment, as the system of the Google car was able to save as many as 600 GB of data in only 16.8 GB in France, among which there would be a good number of email messages exchanged by users through the Wi-Fi hot spots detected by Google. Despite the justifications of the U.S., which has repeatedly insisted that he came into possession of this information sub pages unintentional and accidental, as well as having guaranteed to be prepared to destroy all the data had wrongly, the French Commission has decided to punish Google as responsible for what is a real invasion of privacy.
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