Giant search engine Google was threatened by European data protection agencies for the charges posting illegal data over the internet, which was supposedly taken from its Street View Cars. The company was warned that it must obliterate four discs, which contained illegal information. The data was allegedly recorded from unsecured Wi-Fi networks. According to sources if Google continues to keep the data it will be considered as the contempt of court.

The authorities stated that the web giant had promised to remove the illicit content last year. However, it recently claimed that it continued to persist the data ‘accidently’. Recently, the ICA (Information Commissioner Office) has threatened the company to wipe off the information failing which it will face legal proceedings. The ICO had ordered to remove the content way back in 2010, however; last year the company exposed more from UK, which had not been removed.

The company was also disparaged by the regulators for integrating the privacy rules with various online agencies. By merging the privacy rules, when a user agrees to the privacy policies of Google, it automatically gets a nod for the other services.

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Al Verney, the Google Spokesman stated that, the company’s privacy policy respects the law of European authorities. He also quoted that “We have engaged fully with the data protection authorities involved throughout this process and will continue to do so going forward.”

The upshot of the Web Giant’s fight with the European authorities is likely to be closely scrutinized by the other prestigious US tech companies such as Microsoft and Facebook, which are also responsible for storing and exposing hefty amounts of personal information.

The privacy lawyers have welcomed the edict, however; some of them put forward the fact that a bit more should be done to scrutinize Google’s privacy standards.