After being caught spying on people across Europe and Australia with its Wi-Fi-slurping Street View cars, Google had told regulators that it would delete the ill-gotten data. Google broke its promise.
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) received a letter from Google in which the company admits it kept a “small portion” of the electronic information collected from the United Kingdom and other countries.
“Google apologizes for this error,” Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, said in the letter, which the ICO published.
The ICO said in a statement that Google Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., had agreed to delete all that data nearly two years ago, adding that its failure to do so “is cause for concern.”
