The legal representative of Google in Spain has been called to testify by Instruction judge number 45 of Madrid in connection with a complaint of alleged association APEDANICA crimes of revealing secrets or violation of privacy in the case known as Street View. Legal sources have indicated Friday that although he has not yet delivered the amount of $ 3,000 has been imposed on the plaintiff to the initiation of the citation is still standing.
On Monday, the judge will decide whether to go ahead with the procedure and therefore the request for information to Google to determine whether or not incurred crime of breach of privacy for access to data without consent citizens, or if they postponed pending the financial contribution required from APEDANICA, sources said Superior Court of Madrid.
The Judge Raquel Fernandino has issued an order in which the quotes 10 hours from Monday to representative of Google in relation to the complaint of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Crime, Abuse and Neglect Advanced Computing and Communications (APEDANICA).
To make the complaint go ahead would have to prove that Google intended to spy on citizens The judge will try to see if there was by Google capturing user information wifi networks during the making data for mapping service on the Internet, called Street View which allows you to view panoramic images at specific points 360 degrees from the streets of many cities.
According to the complainants, the uptake data users connected to unprotected wireless networks with passwords and subsequent storage could violate the privacy of individuals. This admitted by the judge, dating from December 2013, following a complaint in 2010, would have very little chance complaint to thrive, according to legal experts.
For the complaint would have to go ahead show that Google intended to spy on citizens when information captured wifi networks while taking pictures with their vehicles for mapping service, a very unlikely scenario, according to experts. At the time the company and publicly apologized for these actions , and admitted it was a mistake that service Street View cars had collected information from public wifi networks; also said that data had never been used.
The procedure for criminal proceedings is independent of other actions that once were undertaken by authorities as the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD) and entities other competing countries in the field for the same case of Street View. In 2010 AEPD opened disciplinary proceedings to Google after a series of inspection activities on the uptake and storage without consent wifi location data networks used by vehicles to photograph streets in different cities for Street View application.
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