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Released: May 27, 2010
Google balks at turning over data to regulators
Source: Kevin J. O"brien, N.Y.Times (Free Registration)
Google has balked at requests from regulators to surrender Internet data and e-mails it collected from unsecured home wireless networks, saying it needed time to resolve legal issues.
In Germany, Google said it was not able to comply with the Hamburg data protection supervisor’s Thursday deadline to hand over data the company had collected — inadvertently, it says — while roving cars were compiling its Street View photo map archive.
Ironically, the company implied that German privacy laws were preventing it from turning over the information, even to a government agency.
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