In response to Monday's announcement from Microsoft, Google's global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer offered a statement pointing out Google's decision in June to make user data anonymous after 18 months.

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Instead, Google has a collection of individuals in charge of privacy, among them are Jane Horvath (Senior Privacy Counsel) and Peter Fleischer (Global Privacy Counsel he blogs about it too).

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"Google has recently confirmed that it still has in its possession a small portion of ... data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK, " Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel said in a letter published by the ICO.

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