{"id":747579,"date":"2013-04-22T09:09:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=225961"},"modified":"2013-04-22T09:09:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T13:09:55","slug":"google-fined-190k-for-wi-fi-data-collection-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747579","title":{"rendered":"Google Fined $190K For Wi-Fi Data Collection In Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is still taking heat and being fined over the Wi-Fi data collection fiasco<\/a> that took place between 2008 and 2010. <\/p>\n

This morning, Bloomberg reports<\/a> that a German regulator has fined the company 145,000 euros ($189,230) over the debacle. From Bloomberg’s Karin Matussek: <\/p>\n

Hamburg data regulator Johannes Caspar said in an e- mailed statement today. He had reopened the probe after prosecutors dropped a related criminal case last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, this is one of the biggest data protection rules violations known,\u201d said Caspar. Google\u2019s \u201cinternal control mechanisms must have severely failed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 2011, France fined Google $142,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year, Google was fined $25,000 by the FCC<\/a> for obstructing an investigation into its related practices, though the Commission ended up dropping the investigation. <\/p>\n

Last month, Google settled with 38 states<\/a> in the U.S. over the issue. <\/p>\n

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Google is still taking heat and being fined over the Wi-Fi data collection fiasco that took place between 2008 and 2010. This morning, Bloomberg reports that a German regulator has fined the company 145,000 euros ($189,230) over the debacle. From Bloomberg’s Karin Matussek: Hamburg data regulator Johannes Caspar said in an e- mailed statement today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38tJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}