The New York Times reports on Google’s recent settlement over its Street View privacy violations. The settlement includes a $7 million fine and requires the company to establish a privacy program within six months and train relevant employees on privacy. “This gives me some glimmer of hope that going forward, the culture of Google will include more Privacy by Design,” said the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Joseph Hall. The Future of Privacy Forum’s Jules Polonetsky, CIPP/US, said the settlement indicates “we all seem to be really happy making this tradeoff” of our personal data for technological advances. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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