Ah, France. Land of lovely beaches, a decent railway system, and more unexplained delays and work stoppages than anywhere else inside the developed world. Oh, and a chief airport that forces you to exploit ‘tickets’ to purchase food from certain vendors and refuses to accomplish a CDG -> JFK flight on schedule. Gripes aside, it appears at the least something is getting done today over within the country of the Human Rights, with France’s data protection regulator confirming a record €100,000 fine sent over to Google when it comes to improper data collection during its Street View sweeps . Granted, El Goog has run into privacy issues before in this very matter, but none quite as ginormous as these. The National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties claims that the corporate’s infractions include “collecting passwords and email transferred wirelessly,” and its highest ever fined has been levied because of the “economic advantages Google gained from these violations.” We’re told that the corporate has two months to appeal the penalty, but as of now, it sort of feels as though Google’s frightened to make any comment in any respect in English. Thank heavens for Translate , right?
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