EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said it "is not acceptable that a company operating in the EU does not respect EU rules" in response to Google’s accidental collection of e-mail, browser data and passwords over WiFi networks with its Street View cars for the last three years. Johannes Caspar, the data protection supervisor for the city state of Hamburg in Germany, said he is giving Google until May 26 to hand over one of the hard drives that it had used to store information in Germany or he will consider fining the company. – Google continues to be under siege by regulators in Europe
for accidentally scooping citizens’ data from WiFi networks, with the European
Union’s justice commissioner claiming the company doesn’t respect its rules.
The search engine May 14 admitted that its Street View Cars, which shoot pictures…