A federal appeals court has rejected Google's attempt to have a lawsuit concerning Street View data interception dismissed.
In May 2010, Google publicly revealed that the vehicles it uses to take panoramic shots of streets around the world had been accidentally intercepting and storing payload data from unsecured wireless networks. Analysis of the data done in various regions showed that ... [ read the full article ]
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well i think, streetveiw ,maps and earth is pretty decent, if people are up to no good then tough luck, i have found google very useful for driving to a place out of town (278 miles away) and shows me the road i should be on when i reach the destination.
It's not that Google read the data, it's that Google kept the data. What the hell for?! The only possible answers involve some kind of shady behavior, and the judge in this case apparently agrees.
