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  Google Agrees to Turn Over Wi-Fi Data to European Regulators

  JP 11:47 am on June 8, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: CEO Eric Schmidt (3), Data, german authorities, google (193), nbsp (1,691), Read (1,473), view cars (2)

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  A few weeks ago Google admitted that it had inadvertently collected personal data being sent over Wi-Fi networks as its Street View cars made their way around the globe. Google collected certain data to identify networks and locations for later processing of the images it captured, however the company sucked up some extra data. Google simply wanted to erase the data and move on, but European regulators had a different idea.

  After a two week standoff between Google and German authorities, CEO Eric Schmidt has announced that the search company will turn over the roughly 600GB of data collected. Google will also publish an audit performed on the data by an external (non-governmental) entity in an effort to quell the controversy. The data won’t be the only thing being examined, though. Google is performing an internal audit of its privacy practices and is double checking all code related to data corrections for possible violations.

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  Google Agrees to Turn Over Wi-Fi Data to European Regulators originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Google Public Data Explorer Makes Sea of Stats Easy to Understand

  JP 11:30 am on March 9, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bureau of labor statistics, california department of education, Data, google (193), Makes Sea, nbsp (1,691), Read (1,473), u s census bureau, U.S. Bureau, U.S. Census, U.S. Center

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  Google has been offering public data and statistics via search for some time now. In November, it added stores of information from the World Bank to its database. Now, the search giant has supplemented Google Labs with a new tool, the Public Data Explorer, which is designed to make that torrent of numbers a little easier to understand.

  Data, anything from common last names to unemployment figures, can be combined and compared into line or bar graphs, as well as into animated maps and bubble charts. The animated bubble charts are particularly impressive. In the example below, you can watch the number of worldwide births drop as life expectancy increases. An extra layer of data is added by separating countries into color-coded bubbles. Representing various demographics, those bubbles grow and shrink in accordance with each group’s size in relation to the overall population.

  In addition to the World Bank, data can be culled from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, the California Department of Education, Eurostat, the U.S. Center for Disease Control, and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (whew!) — making it an invaluable tool for researchers, students, and anyone else who needs easy access to a bottomless store of statistics. [From: Official Google Blog]

  Google Public Data Explorer Makes Sea of Stats Easy to Understand originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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