LONDON — After being caught spying on people across Europe and Australia with its Street View cars, Google had told angry regulators that it would delete the ill-gotten data, but it broke its promise.
Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office received a letter from Google in which the company admits it kept a “small portion” of the electronic information it had been meant to get rid of.
“Google apologizes for this error,” Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, said in the letter, which the commissioner's office published on its website.
The Information Commissioner’s Office said in a statement that Google Inc. had agreed to delete all that data nearly two years ago, adding that its failure to do so “is cause for concern.”