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Google Agrees to $7 Million Settlement (VIDEO)

By Nina Settappa
March 13, 2013 Updated Mar 13, 2013 at 8:36 AM EDT

UNDATED (www.incnow.tv) – Google has agreed to a seven million dollar settlement after the company’s street view cars, the ones that take pictures for Google Maps and Google Earth, collected huge amounts of unauthorized data.

Along with the seven million dollar pay-out, the search giant has agreed to destroy the data and educate its employees on consumer privacy. If you were curious how much a 7 million dollar hit will impact the company that’s about how much Google makes in an hour.



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