Items tagged with WiFi-snooping

by Seth Colaner — Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Google Gets Off Easy With $7M Fine In Wi-Fi Privacy Case

Google has been fined $7 million dollars in a case over the company’s WiFi snooping, which occurred between 2008-2010 as Google Street View cars crisscrossed the country mapping everything in sight. Google Street View is a gloriously powerful tool, but the fleet of Street View mapping cars were collecting data such as passwords from the WiFi networks they cruised past in addition to snapping photos. Several reports indicate that a lone rogue engineer was responsible for the data collection, although others at the company eventually learned of the practice and didn’t do anything about... Read more...

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