{"id":12525,"date":"2010-05-20T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-20T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:35:00","slug":"google-warned-to-respect-data-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/12525-google-warned-to-respect-data-privacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Google warned to respect data privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle spoke with Page on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday prosecutors in Hamburg opened a criminal investigation into Google about the recording of people&#8217;s online activities through unsecured Wi-Fi networks.<\/p>\n<p>Google has acknowledged the privacy breach and apologized.<\/p>\n<p>Westerwelle&#8217;s ministry said he rebuked Page for the glitch, noting those who champion human rights and freedoms must also respect the right to privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Many Germans oppose &#8220;Street View&#8221; and bristle at the idea of having their homes easily identifiable over the internet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?233813-Germany-warns-Google-to-respect-data-privacy\"><strong>Google and privacy<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#039;s Foreign Minister has warned Google co-founder Larry Page to respect the nation&#039;s data protection laws in an escalating dispute over the U.S. Internet giant&#039;s &quot;Street View&quot; mapping program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}