I makes a change for North America to be a little more aggressive when it comes to challenging large corporates on privacy goofs than EU countries. France handed down an £87,000 (100,000 euro) penalty which whilst the largest ever handed out by CNIL pales into insignificance compared to our North American cousins. In the UK the ICO was simply not bothered enough and as Nick Pickles, head of UK privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch rightly put it “British regulators barely managed to slap Google on the wrist for this, so yet again British consumers seem to be left with weaker protection of their privacy than other countries,”.
via BBC News – Google hit by $7m Street View fine in US.
