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After years of deliberation, a German provincial privacy regulator has fined Google â?¬145,000 ($189,000)â??nearly the legal maximum of â?¬150,000â??over its Wi-Fi scanning scandal. On Monday, Hamburg's data protection commissioner, who led German and ...
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