Google still has Street View WiFi data from UK, several other countries

Google still has Street View WiFi data from UK, several other countries:

Google Street View cars have been deployed to 48 countries around the world.

David Cesarino

On Friday, Google admitted in an e-mail to the British data protection authority (PDF), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), that it was still in possession of a “small portion of payload data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK.”
In December 2010, Google said it had deleted all such data in the UK.
A person familiar with the matter told Ars by phone on Friday that similar notifications had gone out to Ireland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Australia.
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