WELLINGTON (AFP) - giant Internet Google said sorry New Zealand Tuesday for the collection of personal data for its "Street View" mapping service wireless networks in the last of a series of apology.
The company stated that it did not realize until earlier this year that cars used to photograph the public streets were also gather information commonly referred to as "data payload" sent on systems not secured Wi - Fi.
Sent non-encrypted information about Wi - Fi are not password-protected systems potentially contains personal information, including the content of emails.
Google said as soon as he realized his mistake, he cars Street View garage and began working with New Zealand Commissioner Marie Shroff on ways to solve the problem.
"Our payload data collection has been an error we are truly sorry and we? d like to apologise to all New Zealand, "Google said on its blog New Zealand."
Google announced in May that its Street View car take pictures of towns with more than 30 countries were inadvertently gathered data sent over unsecured Wi - Fi systems, sparking complaints by data regulators around the world.
In Britain, Google has agreed to remove the private emails and passwords, in Australia, was found to have broken laws for the protection of personal information, but no penalty may be imposed.
The company has continued to United States, while in Germany, he agreed to allow people to opt out of Street View, to privacy, in which case their homes would be rasterized.
On his blog New Zealand said Google the company had never used the data payload of its products or services, but recognized there were public concerns on its actions.
He said: "some people thought that we should have been more explicit about what we were gathering."
"We also believe that we should have had a greater transparency of our initial collection of the information network Wi - Fi publicly broadcast." Us? Re sorry realization not this sooner. »
Shroff welcomes an apology from Google but warned his initial actions were "not enough good" when it has collected them popular communications content.
"It is important for Google to ensure that these errors not keep the case," she said in a statement.
"Technology succeed, people need to trust it." If they do not trust, they use. »
Shroff said that Google is committed to improving the training of personnel on issues of privacy and verification of new products carefully until they were released.
Privacy Commissioner referred the matter to the police in June and officers of cyber crime experts reported three months later that they do not believe that an offence has been committed.
However, they said case emphasized the need for the Internet users put in place security measures when you use systems of Wi - Fi.
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