Google admitted to not removing controversial Street View data collected in 2010

I remember that on Habr the conflict that erupted between Google and the government bodies of many European countries was covered quite well. Then the corporation was convicted of the fact that cars photographing the streets of cities simultaneously collected data on open wireless networks. Fragments of this data (gigabytes and gigabytes) fell on the servers of the corporation. France, Germany and some other countries began to sue the Corporation of Good, and achieved a resolution requiring the corporation to remove this data from its servers. But some data is still not deleted.

Let me remind you that the data collected included passwords and email addresses of users working on open wireless networks. According to Google representatives, all this data was not deleted due to the human factor (in fact, this whole problem arose as a result of an error of some of the corporation's engineers). And the data was collected not only in the UK, France and Germany, but also in Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia.

The corporation admitted its mistake, but at the same time, claims that none of the collected in this way was used for commercial purposes. Now the company is committed to checking what data has not been deleted. After some time, the relevant government bodies of the affected countries will be notified of the state of affairs.

It is not yet clear when all this data will be permanently deleted.

Via mashable