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Google Pays $7 Million to Settle Privacy Breach

By Thomas B. Scheffey
March 29, 2013

A settlement was announced in charges against Google Inc. for collecting data from people's homes. Under the agreement, Google will pay $7 million to 38 states. The terms of the settlement were announced by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, whose office led a privacy task force investigating Google for unauthorized collection of data using its 'Street View' vehicles. The company agreed to change its corporate practices regarding privacy.

The Street View program, launched in 2007 in 30 countries, creates continuous images of the shops, houses and vegetation that a driver could see while traveling America's highways, streets and even rural roads. The colorful Street View sedans sprouted cameras to capture the visual footage as they drove along. They also had antennae that collected data being transmitted from unencrypted WiFi routers, which create wireless Internet connections

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