Brazil has demanded an answer from Google over its alleged harvesting of private Wi-Fi data as part of its Street View mapping project.
Google has now been ordered by a court to respond by Saturday or pay a fine of $45,000 per day up to a maximum of $450,000.
The latest court ruling comes in the wake of a complaint filed by the Brazilian Institute of Computer Policy and Rights, which based the claims on similar issues in other countries and sought Google to disclose if it also gathered data in Brazil, BBC reported.
As part of the project, Google uses cars equipped with cameras and antennas to capture 360-degree photos of streets and houses that are later framed and published as online maps.
In March this year, Google agreed to resolve with 30 US states over its collection of people’s passwords and other personal information via its Street View mapping cars from home Wi-Fi.
Google has also received orders from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to erase all the captured Wi-Fi data compiled via its Street View project, while has also been fined about €145,000 by German data regulators for the similar issue.
