Google's Wi-Fi data snooping brouhaha just got worse. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Monday announced his office is leading a multistate investigation into Google's Wi-Fi data snooping gaffe. More than thirty U.S. states have already indicated interest in Blumenthal's investigation.
Google in May announced that during an internal audit into its Street View data collection policies the search giant had been "mistakenly collecting samples " of user browsing data sent over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks such as e-mail, user passwords and browsing history. The piece of programming code used to grab user data was from an "experimental WiFi project," and Google says the code was inadvertently added to Google's Street View data collection software. Google's internal audit was prompted by a request of Germany's privacy authorities.
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Google in May announced that during an internal audit into its Street View data collection policies the search giant had been "mistakenly collecting samples " of user browsing data sent over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks such as e-mail, user passwords and browsing history. The piece of programming code used to grab user data was from an "experimental WiFi project," and Google says the code was inadvertently added to Google's Street View data collection software. Google's internal audit was prompted by a request of Germany's privacy authorities.
More: http://pcworld.com/article/199508/