Google has admitted for the first time that its Street View cars accidentally captured more sensitive information from wireless networks around the world than it previously thought.
The disclosure by the web giant comes just days after the Canadian privacy watchdog accused the company of collecting complete e-mails and passwords from wireless networks in the country while its Street View ... [ read the full article ]
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I don't think its a big deal, it was an accident street view is awesome, good for google for owning up to the mistake I am sure nothing bad was done with the information that was accidentally collected
This is really pretty bad, they were doing something that shouldn't have been attempted in the first place. The laws about hacking and related issues are pretty strict as they should be. Anyone remember the kid that hacked into a company, and then approached the company of the hack he did to get into the company. He did it more to get a job and absolutely did nothing malicious nor attempt to look at any private sensitive information in the company he hacked into. Last report was he got a prison sentence for 10 years before able for parole.
The big problem is a difference made between private individuals and corporations, a corporation should be held to the same level of integrity as other individuals are.
It is annoying, or should i say scary to see stuntman_ to say it is not a big thing...
Main thing no company should even attempt to capture the information they did and store it. If any of us did this we would be looking at prison time.
stuntman_ is right. The system was set up to collect any freely available wireless data as it passed through those areas. There was no hacking involved or purposeful intent to collect personally sensitive data. It's just a good example of how bad wireless is security-wise.
Yeah, this is getting blown way out of proportion. Let's not forget - Google was gathering information from unencrypted wifi networks. This was the digital equivalent of people 'shouting' data for anyone in a 100-meter radius to hear. If Google was the only party who happened to be listening when sensitive data was transmitted over an unencrypted connection, I think the people doing the transmitting should consider themselves lucky and move on.
