Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, has signed a commitment to improve data handling to ensure breaches like the collection of WiFi payload data by Google Street View vehicles do not occur again.
Senior Vice President of Google, Alan Eustace, has signed an undertaking on behalf of Google Inc. which commits the company to putting into place improved training measures on security awareness and data protection issues for all employees. The company has also said it will require its engineers to maintain a privacy design document for every new project before it is launched. The payload data that Google inadvertently collected in the UK will also be deleted.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will conduct a full audit of Google's internal privacy structure, privacy training programmes and its system of privacy reviews for new products. The audit will take place within nine months of the undertaking being signed.
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