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Arizona gets $327K in Google Street View settlement

BY: The Associated Press

Published: March 13, 2013 at 4:36 pm

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne attends the official election canvass approval signing at the Historic Senate Chambers at the Capitol, Monday Dec. 3, 2012, in Phoenix. Horne is being investigated by the State Bar over allegations stemming from an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Arizona is getting nearly $327,000 in a multi-state settlement over data collected by Google for its Street View service.

Attorney General Tom Horne announced Wednesday that Arizona joined 37 other states and the District of Columbia in a $7 million agreement.

Horne says Arizona is getting the sixth-largest share of the settlement.

States argued that while Google vehicles drove through neighborhoods between 2008 and March 2010 taking photos for the mapping software, the company also collected data being transferred through unsecured wireless networks.

The settlement acknowledges that could have included Internet browsing data or emails.

Google has since disabled the equipment that was collecting the data, and agreed to destroy the information as soon as possible.

Street View allows users to zoom in to ground level while browsing maps.
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One Response to “Arizona gets $327K in Google Street View settlement”

  1. proact Says:
    March 14th, 2013 at 11:39 am

    Will this also be used for the private prison corporations to build more NEW prisons that Arizona does NOT need? Wake up folks. This is the publics’ problem.

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