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Fresh probe into Google project

Monday, 25 October 2010

Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt

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Google could be the first firm to incur heavy fines under UK privacy laws, after admitting downloading private emails and passwords.

Information commissioner Christopher Graham is launching a new investigation into the Street View project.

In so doing, they “mistakenly” collected emails and passwords from computers on wireless networks.

Google director of privacy Alma Whitten said: “We are profoundly sorry for having mistakenly collected payload data from unencrypted networks.”

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