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Streetviewed: Google cars snooping on WiFi users not an accident

Monday, April 30, 2012

Streetviewed: Google cars snooping on WiFi users not an accident


Google bosses were informed their Street View cars would collect e-mails, names, addresses and other personal data from Wi-Fi users around the world, a government report shows. But the company insists the message didn’t get through.

­Neither a mistake nor the work of an unauthorized engineer was behind Google's massive harvesting of Wi-Fi communications that included e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information across three continents in 2007-2010, indicates the recent report filed by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The supervisors of the Street View program were well aware Google cars would go beyond photographing streetscapes. Or at least they should have been..... MORE

SourceRT.com

URL: http://rt.com/news/google-streetview-private-data-290/

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