Germany Fines Google Over Data Collection

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This is a post written by Kevin J. O’Brien of The New York Times, explaining about a German privacy regulator that fined Google €145,000 in Berlin on Monday. This fine is said to be for Google’s illegal collection of personal data while the company was constructing its Street View mapping service.

Johannes Caspar, a data protection supervisor in the German city-state of Hamburg, explains that an approximate of €150,000 maximum he could legally levy is not enough to prevent Google from performing their data practices. Mr. Casper said in The New York Times that

As long as violations of data protection law are penalized with such insignificant sums, the ability of existing laws to protect personal privacy in the digital world, with its high potential for abuse, is barely possible,

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