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Google Refuses to Learn the Lesson: Street View Cars Accused of Invading Privacy, Again

Google has courted legal troubles in most of the countries, where it plied its Street View cars. But it looks like that the tech behemoth is not ready to change its ways. This time Google has been accused of collecting locational data of millions of phones and laptops through its Street View cars. The findings have been made by the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, which is a French government body. The commission is responsible for maintaining the integrity of data and protecting it.

The commission found that Google cars collected hardware IDs of thousands of laptops and mobile phones. The company has been accused of similar invasion earlier too. However, at that time, Google had pleaded ignorance and had said that the data was collected accidentally.

Lately, both Apple and Google were under fire for collecting geographical data of people using their smartphone OS and the controversy is refusing to die anytime soon. CNET has reported that it is not yet clear whether Google collected the hardware data of its wireless routers only or if the individual client device hardware IDs were also harvested. CNET also reported that Google does not provide any opt-out system for people whose data has been included by the company in its database.

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