Further movement on Google Street View : US Attorney General demands that Google hand over data harvest from Street View

An important development in the United States over the past few days regarding the Google Street View data scandal:

As has been well documented on this blog and elsewhere, in collecting its Street View data, Google harvested millions of personal wi-fi codes, email addresses and passwords.  

Last week, in Connecticut, the Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, has demanded not just that Google delete the data it harvested, but that Google hand over the data to the Attorney General's office.  The purpose is to ensure that the Connecticut Authorities, can properly examine exactly what data Google collected.

As Mr Blumenthal stated:

"We need to verify what confidential information the company surreptitiously and wrongfully collected and stored...We are compelling the company to grant my office access to data to determine whether emails, passwords, web-browsing and other information was improperly intercepted, for the same reasons that other law enforcement agencies abroad have done so".
 
Google have been given until 17 December to hand over the data, but up until now have refused to do so.  The action in the United States, leads to further questions in the UK.  Why is the Information Commissioner only demanding the deletion of the Google data?  The UK Attorney General, and Information Commission, should demand that Google pass over all the UK data it collected from its Street View activites.

P.S.  You can read more HERE.

by Robert Halfon - www.roberthalfon.blogspot.com