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Nearly a decade ago, the tech giant was accused of accessing data through unencrypted Wi-Fi connections, and Google is expected to pay millions to end a long-running legal dispute over privacy violations during the company's Street View Map project.

The industry giant's geographic mapping team collects large amounts of data from insecure Wi-Fi connections as they unconsciously roam through streets and areas. Payload data collected by cars and trucks includes email, passwords, and other information, although this only means collecting SSID and MAC addresses to improve location-based services.

According to Bloomberg News, the company now expects to pay $13 million to end a privacy lawsuit filed by 22 plaintiffs, a class action lawsuit on behalf of all those affected by data collection.

As part of the solution, Google will also destroy any data it collects during Street View mapping and promises to teach people how to protect privacy online.

This put an end to a scandal that should have brought billions of dollars in compensation. The reason for this relatively modest solution is that the challenge is that people are proving that they were hurt by Google's illegal data collection, so they are entitled to compensation.

Before Cambridge Analytics began to dominate the headlines, the Google Street View scandal was one of the biggest privacy storms of the past decade.

In 2010, Google admitted that it had "screwed up" by accidentally accessing data from its unprotected Wi-Fi network, and the crash became a reality. Privacy International accused Google of deliberately breaking the law at the time and published an analysis showing that the company was riddled with errors in explaining why it held the data.

After ordering Google to delete any data it collected in these ways, ICO claimed in 2012 that it had failed to remove all content from its system.

Initially, the UK data regulator did not consider the UK data obtained by Google to be related to any significant data and closed its investigation into the company without taking significant action. ICO reopened the investigation after Google later admitted that the data collected included emails and passwords, but insisted Google would not be fined.

Elsewhere, Google has filed another class-action lawsuit against more than 200 people, accusing the tech giant of "systematic models and practices" of age discrimination. It is estimated that the company will pay the claimant $11 million.

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