From Macau Business
Google had to pay three fines amounting to MOP30,000 (US$3,750) to the Macau government for the unauthorised collection of city images for its online mapping service Street View, the Office for Personal Data Protection said.
From December 2008 to September 2009 Google collected street images from Macau using a car with a specially fitted-camera.
In 2010, the government rejected a request from Google to resume its image collecting activities in Macau after the collection was suspended amidst claims that the company was breaching the local privacy law.
But a government investigation also found that Google “mistakenly” gathered personal data that was sent through unsecured WiFi networks.
The company was fined a total of MOP30,000 for three infringements: that of gathering the images, taking them back to the United States and for collecting personal data.
The fines have already been paid and Google agreed to blur faces and number plates from the images and delete personal information collected from the Wifi data.
Google had to pay three fines amounting to MOP30,000 (US$3,750) to the Macau government for the unauthorised collection of city images for its online mapping service Street View, the Office for Personal Data Protection said.
From December 2008 to September 2009 Google collected street images from Macau using a car with a specially fitted-camera.
In 2010, the government rejected a request from Google to resume its image collecting activities in Macau after the collection was suspended amidst claims that the company was breaching the local privacy law.
But a government investigation also found that Google “mistakenly” gathered personal data that was sent through unsecured WiFi networks.
The company was fined a total of MOP30,000 for three infringements: that of gathering the images, taking them back to the United States and for collecting personal data.
The fines have already been paid and Google agreed to blur faces and number plates from the images and delete personal information collected from the Wifi data.
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