[governance] Google Wi-Fi gaffe breached Privacy Act

Sat Aug 18 08:31:07 EDT 2012

Breach of privacy (when caught) = apology

A few key governance issues come to mind (especially when one thinks of
what Marilia had raised about Facebook and arbitrarily taking down pictures)

   - Who should the the likes of multinational organisations like Google,
   Facebook be answerable to?
   - Is there a basic minimum standard of acceptable behaviour or does it
   differ with jurisdictions?

Do we just leave it to the countries to deal with these multinationals such
as in the case of Germany when they rebuked Facebook for the "like" feature
or in India with Vinay Rai when he took Google, Facebook to the New Delhi
High Court to get them to take down obscene publications or in the case of
Australia as described in the link that Imran sent?

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Imran Ahmed Shah <ias_pk at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does this action of "Information Collection" by Google reallys breach the
> Privacy Act, PIPA?
>    See the discussion on url
> http://delimiter.com.au/2010/07/09/google-wi-fi-gaffe-breached-privacy-act-commissioner/
>
> Regards
>
> Imran
>
> ____________________________________________________________
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