“As a result, our database of objects detected from Street View now inadvertently contains a database of geolocated license plate numbers and license plate number fragments”
404 Media got thousands of Google’s internal privacy incident reports from 2013 to 2018. Street View built a geolocated license plate database by accident. A speech bug logged about 1,000 hours of children’s voices. YouTube recommended videos based on watch histories users had deleted. Google’s defence is that every report was “reviewed and resolved,” which is what you say when nobody outside ever saw them.