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10 years later, Google ends litigation over Street View data collection

10 years later, Google ends litigation over Street View data collection

In 2011 Google was accused of having recovered, with it's Street View vehicles, the personal data of the inhabitants of the neighborhoods visited. The Mountain View giant has reached an agreement with 38 US states to put an end to this case that has been going on for more than a decade. 

Google will finally close this long judicial soap opera that has plagued his life for over 10 years. At the time, the web giant had multiplied, in the United States, vehicles equipped with sensors and cameras to improve Street View, its virtual-navigation service.

Personal information retrieved until 2010


Google was then quickly accused of having unintentionally recovered a lot of information through Wi-Fi routers installed in the inhabitants of the streets crossed. This unencrypted data, which could be e-mails, passwords or any other non-secure file, was captured by Google's systems and stored on the company's servers. 

Google has thus found itself in the middle of a controversy and analysts provided billions of dollars in fines in view of the many complaints filed by several groups of users. It will finally be nothing.

A derisory deal against the billions of dollars that Google could have paid


After having signed an agreement with 38 US states, the search engine will ultimately have to pay only $ 13 million to draw a line on this case. Yet the US Court of Appeals in San Francisco had concluded that in case of a lawsuit, Google could have to pay nearly $ 10,000 per violation found. 

The company will also have to erase the 600 GB of data collected by Street View vehicles until 2010. The 20 or so plaintiffs at the origin of the charges will also have to receive an indemnity the amount of which has not been specified.

A judge from San Francisco has yet to validate this agreement so that the giant of the web can once and for all leave this affair behind him

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