Reporters-The latest news:The engineer Google behind the collection of wireless data by Street View cars told at least two colleagues – ivolving a senior manager – about the controversial plans before it was released recently.
The media In a report published by Google on Sunday, the FCC said that perhaps five engineers were involved in developing the Street View code but did not realise that it could collect so-called payload data.
The (FCC) said in a report that the Google engineer told colleagues in 2007 that his Street View programme could collect private information including emails and text messages.
It is the most invention by google engineer. The engineer free minded told two colleagues, including a senior manager,It was designed to collect this information in 2007 and again in 2008.
Now this syestem of google wonders of the world.The company admitted publicly in May 2010 that it had collected the data, which the FCC said was not a breach of US laws.The company published the data 2010.
"We decided to voluntarily make the entire document available except for the names of individuals. While we disagree with some of the statements made in the document, we agree with the FCC's conclusion that we did not break the law. We hope that we can now put this matter behind us."
The Federal Communications Commission FCC said that the engineer intended to gather and store the data for possible use in other Google projects. On at least one occasion, the engineer reviewed payload data to identify frequently visited websites, according to the report.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in a report that the Google engineer told colleagues in 2007 that his Street View programme could collect
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report that for months last year Google wilfully and repeatedly prevented its investigation by withholding certain documents.
One senior manager at Google again approved the engineer's plans, the FCC said, while two colleagues were specifically told that Street View could collect sensitive information such as passwords, emails and internet browsing history duration.
FCC replied "For more than two years, Google's Street View cars collected Biodata/ names, addresses, telephone numbers, URLs, passwords, email, text messages, medical records, video and audio files, and other information from internet users in the United States,"
Google was found to have collected like data from users in the UK, Netherlands, France and the most other countries in the world where its Street View cars operated syestem.
Google has apologised for the collection and last year said it would beef up its internal privacy policies as a response to the failure.
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