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French guillotine Google

by on18 June 2010
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Revolution starts again


The French independent privacy watchdog CNIL claims that it has had a victory against the oppressive Googlish regime and forced the King of the Internet to hand over copies of the emails, browsing history, banking details and other fragments of data.

The data was stolen from the great unwashed by the Internet King's technicians while they cruised French streets photographing the area for the website's Street View mapping feature. CNIL said it is still examining the data that it received from Google on June 4 and may conduct a tribunal to seek financial or criminal penalties over the privacy breach, the organisation's head Yann Padova said yesterday.

The French have a bit of a problem with King's internet or otherwise, they wouldn't have lopped off the head of their last one. Padova said it remains unknown how many individuals and how many cities had their private data half inched by Google.

Last modified on 20 June 2010
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