Google has now admitted in a blog entry, that Google's Street View camera cars also have recorded more sensitive data than previously thought. In May, Google had said , there are useful data from unprotected, unencrypted networks that is operated WiFi been recorded. This is a software from a different experimental project done.

A more detailed analysis of the data have now shown that stored data, even passwords, URLs and emails is to have the. This data will now be deleted as possible so quickly. "I want to apologize again for me that we even have collected this data," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president for engineering and research at Google, and adds one ashamed for this to happen that could.

Through strengthening the internal data protection rules is to ensure that no such recurrence. Google's staff and security expert Alma Whitten will continue to monitor as "Director of Privacy at Google compliance with data protection both in development and in product management. In addition, the employees receive additional training on data protection. In future, each project also had to document whether and which user data is collected. These records will be reviewed by managers and by external auditors.