Google has been fined a hefty sum of $7 M o settle a multi-state US investigation into a software snooping program that the firm admitted was on its Street View mapping cars.
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The agreement covers 38 states and the District of Columbia, part of the area where households and local merchants unwittingly had some of their communications on Wi-Fi networks snatched by Google from early 2008 until the spring of 2010.
Google stopped the data collection in May 2010, shortly before the company revealed cars taking street-level photos for its online mapping service also had been grabbing information transmitted over Wi-Fi networks that had been set up in homes and businesses without requiring a password to gain access.
The company blamed the intrusion on a rogue engineer who rigged a data-collection program into equipment that was supposed to only detect basic information about local Wi-Fi networks to help plot the locations of people using its mapping service and other products.
Read more about it at: Mail Online
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