Google Admits Failing to Delete Street View Data

Google has admitted it did not delete all of the data collected by Street View mapping cars in 2010 in several countries, despite assuring the public the information -- including passwords and emails -- would be cleared from its records.

The reason for this Google fail: human error, The Telegraph reports the search giant as saying.

"Google has recently confirmed that it still has in its possession a small portion of payload data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK. Google apologizes for this error," Google Global Privacy Counsel Pete Fleischer wrote to Steve Eckersley, head of enforcement at the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

In addition to the UK, dat…
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