Your Private Data Is No Longer Safe With Google Surveyor Warns
In a statement to PTI, Dr. Rao says, “During their (Google’s) Mapathon 2013 exercise, they collected lot of classified data and we had approached them to refrain from doing so when we came to know about it.” The case has been registered by the Survey of India (SoI), which is the official mapping agency of India. Earlier in Feb-March 2013, the Internet giant, however, had abstained from seeking the SoI’s approval before holding a mapping competition, where people were told to map their locality, along with areas such as hospitals and restaurants in the vicinity....