The legal representative of Google in Spain has been called to testify by the judge in Instruction No. 45 of Madrid in connection with a complaint of APEDANICA for alleged association revealing secrets or violation of privacy in known as If Street View.
Legal sources have indicated that although not yet given the amount of $ 3,000 that has been imposed on the complainant of the procedure for starting the summons still stands.
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 committed the crime of violation of privacy by accessing data without the consent of the citizens , or is postponed pending the financial contribution required from APEDANICA, sources said Superior Court of Madrid.
The Judge Raquel Fernandino has issued an order in which appointment at 10 am on Monday, the representative of Google in relation to the complaint of the Association for the Prevention and Study of Crime, Abuse and Neglect Information and Advanced Communications (APEDANICA).
The judge will try to see if there were at Google acquisition of information users wifi networks during data collection for your internet mapping service , called Street View which allows you to view panoramic images on 360 specific points Streets many cities.
According to the complainants, capturing data of users connected to wifi not password protected and subsequent storage could violate the privacy of the individual networks.
complaint admissible by the judge, dating from December 2013, following a complaint in 2010, would have very little chance of success , according to legal experts consulted by Efefuturo.
To go ahead that the complaint would have to prove 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 already publicly apologized for these actions, and admitted that was a mistake that service Street View cars citizens had gathered information from wireless 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 an infringement procedure to Google after a series of inspection activities on the uptake and storage without the consent of location data wireless networks by vehicles used to photograph streets in different cities for the Street View application.
The process was temporarily suspended later that year as required by law to do so when legal proceedings are initiated.
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