nsane.forums Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Google has been under investigation for the past couple of months for 'accidentally' stealing WiFi data on its Google Street View cars. The cars were designed to take snapshots of streets to help improve its feature, expanding it to additional countries including Canada and Germany. The data was captured through an experimental project that Google accidentally included in its street view cars. However, the Google street cars took more than just photos, it also took personal information, like user IDs. According to a report by Reuters, Google stole more than just the details it originally claimed, it also captured full emails, URLs and even passwords. The original report left out these important details, and some countries have even allowed Google to delete this data, including the UK. The Canadian privacy commissioner is still investigating the matter, as Google did break Canadian privacy laws. Google did claim that some of the data collected was fragmented, because the cars were always moving, but some information that was captured was complete. Google went on to say that it was enhancing its privacy training for their engineers and important groups within the company. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 let google delete the information so no one gets it like a government Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 :o :lmao: :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drolz Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 google is as always ... does everthing !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 23, 2010 Administrator Share Posted October 23, 2010 These days, it's hard to trust Google on anything. Tomorrow they will say that they "accidentally" sold all that data. -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 These days, it's hard to trust Google on anything.Actually, it's hard to trust anyone / anything.You can only give them the benefit of the doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 23, 2010 Administrator Share Posted October 23, 2010 These days, it's hard to trust Google on anything.Actually, it's hard to trust anyone / anything.You can only give them the benefit of the doubt.Agreed. But Google has lost the benefit of the doubt in my eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drolz Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 These days, it's hard to trust Google on anything.Actually, it's hard to trust anyone / anything.as the saying goes " do not trust NO one, not eVen yourself " :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spootnack Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Does Google think that it's the king of the world to collect all this information without the authorities permission ?Google begins to be dangerous, like facebook... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Does Google think that it's the king of the world to collect all this information without the authorities permission ?Google begins to be dangerous, like facebook...they where tryign to get the hotspots to see a map of wifi. now they need to be able to delete the informatin so no one will abuse it like a government or hacker group. btw google owns facebook if you didnt know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 . . . . . . . . 'accidentally' stealing . . . . . . . .:lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 as the saying goes " do not trust NO one, not eVen yourself " :lol:Now, that's just paranoid ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Could be the fallibility percentage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lister Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 they where tryign to get the hotspots to see a map of wifi. now they need to be able to delete the informatin so no one will abuse it like a government or hacker group. btw google owns facebook if you didnt know.I didn't know that, because they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted October 23, 2010 Administrator Share Posted October 23, 2010 I think Yahoo indirectly has some control over FB. Microsoft was able to add Bing search only after Yahoo had given some allowance after the Yahoo-M$ merge on the search side. Otherwise it's pretty much owned by it's respective owners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Got an e-mail the other day saying the Live Spaces were going away.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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