Google Snagged Passwords, E-mail With Street View Cars

meggebrecht@ciozone.com — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100

The news just doesn't get any better for Google as it continues to feel the heat from regulators around the world over the interception of private Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars.

The latest? After an inspection of Wi-Fi data amassed by Google's snooping cars, French data protection agency CNIL says that it included passwords for e-mail and other accounts, extracted e-mail messages, as well as medical and banking information.

That's not exactly how Google h [...]

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Google Snagged Passwords, E-mail With Street View Cars