

The company had previously agreed to halt the collection of network data by the vehicles. In that settlement, the company agreed to destroy the data collected through Street View and launch a campaign to teach people how to protect their information from wifi snooping. In 2013, Google settled a case brought by 38 states over the same issue for $7 million. The company initially called the data collection “a mistake.” However, investigators found Google engineers built software and embedded it into Street View vehicles to intentionally intercept the data from 2007 to 2010, according to court documents. Google expected to pay multimillion dollar penalty to settle investigation into how YouTube handles kids' data The Federal Trade Commission says a website harvested Facebook information to create 73 million sometimes unflattering profiles.
