Google Street View and privacy, the investigating prosecutor in Rome

Google Street View and privacy, the investigating prosecutor in Rome

The prosecutor leading the investigation is Albamonte Eugene, which was entrusted with the investigation by the prosecutor Giovanni Ferrara. The investigation originated from the conclusions of the investigation carried out in recent months by the Guarantor of privacy, as he wrote on his website the same authority. The investigation, dated May 19, 2010, "involved, as well as images, even data on the presence of wireless networks."

The same sponsor, with a decision of 15 October stated that the car used to map the Italian cities will be more recognizable, "through posters or stickers clearly visible, indicating unequivocally that you are scanning photographs for the service Street View. "

The crime investigation at the center of the Roman procurators, 615 bis of the Penal Code punishes "Whoever, by use of imaging tool box or sound, secure unfair news or images relating to privacy," and again, "who disseminate, or broadcast by any means of public information, news or images obtained in the manner specified in the first part of this article.

The activity of Google Street View, as well as having an 'image' and made browsing the web the Italian cities also recorded the presence of wi-fi networks. Investigators are waiting for Google proves that the data collected by the Wi-Fi networks open, ie no passwords or restrictions, are incomplete and unusable.

The same problem was highlighted last May in Germany and then in Ireland, as told by the official Google blog. Already on April 27, Google had written that "there are many other companies that collect data from more time," and that "Google collects photographs, to build Street View; information on Wi-Fi network, which we use to improve services such as positioning maps and research in 3-D images of buildings. " The statements provided by Google to the various authorities to protect the privacy highlighted how the company had picked up "by mistake" portions of 'payload data', ie data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.

Google's lawyers, Giulia Bongiorno and Giuliano Pisapia, have indicated that the company is prepared to work and would be willing to resolve the issue. "The Google Street View cars are constantly moving el'l'impianto WiFi channel automatically changes five times per second," but that "there is a theoretical possibility that the payload data contain personal information when a user at the time of collection , has sent some personal information. "

The data, according to the company, are stored on servers in the U.S.. Would be in a separate database, accessible only by those who have the task of protecting the data. The same data protection commissioner, in forwarding its investigation to the Prosecutor of Rome, had noted in its decision of September 9, "the need for the payload data are not collected for the time being erased from the servers on which they are preserved, as the same could provide evidence in the case of an intervention by the judiciary. "

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