"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 publishedby the ICO.
An article written by Kim Zetter on the front page of Wired.com and published last week prompted concern among Google Apps customers that the security hole had also exposed their companies to mischief makers.
According to a study publishedby tech consultancy Ovum, WhatsApp is the world's third most popular social messaging service after Facebook Chat and Google Chat.