Google apologizes for not deleting the Street View personal data it promised to delete
Skift Take
Google's willingness to be forthcoming shouldn't be confused with transparency. There's no reason it would have spent the time necessary writing the programs to allow it to capture this data if it did not intend to do something with the data.
Google is facing a fresh privacy blunder after it admitted it had not deleted all of the private data, including emails and passwords, it secretly collected from internet users around the UK.
The search giant was ordered in December 2010 to delete the private information hoovered up by its Street View cars from open Wi-Fi networks.
But on Friday Google told the Information Commissioner's Office that human error prevented it from erasing the data, which could include the emails and passwords of millions of Britons.
Google admitted in May 2010 its Street View cars had mistakenly collected priv
