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Germany Conducts Criminal Probe into Google?s Data Collecting

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Prosecuting attorneys in Hamburg, Germany recently opened up a criminal investigation into Google for collecting private Internet data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in the country. The legal probe in Hamburg, where Google?s German headquarters are located, could develop into more pressure on the company to turn over a hard drive used in its data-gathering effort. Google has up to now declined to turn over the hard drive, according to the New York Times. Officials in Germany that focus on data collection set a May 26 deadline on the company to turn over a hard drive, which was used in a vehicles that compiles pictures for its 360-degree Street View photo mapping feature. Criminal charges have not yet been filed against the Internet technology company...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Criminal Defense Blog on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).