Google ordered to destroy Oz Street View data
Privacy Commissioner demands seek, destroy, audit
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The Australian Privacy Commission has followed the lead of its global counterparts demanding that Google Australia immediately destroys payload data which was siphoned by the SteetView wi-fi data sucking car squads.
In a letter sent to Google’s Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs Iarla Flynn, Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim sent a strict edict that Google should immediately destroy the data additionally demanding that an independent third party confirm that the data has been destroyed.
Pilgram has also requested that Google commits to an audit to ensure “that no other disks containing this data exist, and to advise me once this audit is completed.”
Google's Australian PR team has told El Reg "Of course, we'll continue working closely with the Privacy Commissioner on this issue.".
The matter has re-emerged following the revelations that Google was harbouring additional Street View data, after Google had advised that the original data was destroyed back in March 2011.
Google Australia notified the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on July 27 that Google has identified more payload data collected by Google’s Street View vehicles in Australia. In the last few weeks around 11 data protection authorities in Europe had received confession from Google explaining that it still had random Street View data on its servers.
Last week Google’s French digs came under fire from France's Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), which requested that they surrender the Street View payload data . Last month, Google UK confessed it still had "in its possession a small portion of payload data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK".
Meanwhile the Australian Privacy Commission has also announced that it has opened an official investigation onto the Anonymous data hacks against AAPT and Melbourne IT .®
COMMENTS
Re: That's nice.
@jake - just give him the beer back OK
<------ have one from me Psyx
They are not talking to California based Google.
The first line in the article is a clue
"The Australian Privacy Commission has followed the lead of its global counterparts demanding that Google Australia"
Re: That's nice. Facebook rebuffed similar action by taking data offshore.
Re: Has "The Australian Privacy Commission" noticed that California based google is completely out of their jurisdiction?
We have (Google Australia) headquarters here in Sydney AU.
Google Australia Pty Ltd. Pirrama Road, Pyrmont, NSW 2009. Australia.
It's unclear if the street view wifi data slurp was sanctioned by headoffice in USA or AU headquarters.
I guess we'll find out soon enough.
IMPORTANT: to know & think about 'FACKBOOK bypassed some of its USA privacy laws and legal issues' by taking its Users data offshore where their privacy/data retention laws are more lax.
FB User data is stored in Ireland. See further link: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Objectives/objectives.html
Google could possibly have some unknown offshore datastores, where they could have encryted duplicate stashes of all the worlds streetview wifi slurp tucked neatly away! and feel they too; may be above the law.
Hopefully the law takes this into account when drawing up its final compliance draft.
Just a thought! ;-)
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