• Financial Times , Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:05 PM

After a U.S. inquiry raised questions about the company’s handling of its “mistaken” collection of fragments of data by cars taking photographs for the projects, the Information Commissioner’s Office has reopened its investigation. Among the answers the ICO is seeking is precisely what kind of personal information was collected in the UK, at what point Google managers became aware of the type of data being gathered by its Street View cars, and why certain data were not included in the sample presented to the regulator during its original investigation in 2010.

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