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        19 June 2010

Wi-Fi Data - Google Records Email Access Passwords & Extracts of Email Messages


ImageAs many of you know Google is in big doodoo with governments around the world and in particular Europe and Australia. What is the problem? Well Google has been roaming the streets with their Street View cars mapping streets and along the way collecting Wi-Fi network information from houses or businesses they passed.

Google had to stop this invasion of privacy and governments launched investigations into how and what.

The following is from Gizmodo.com

This is what the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) had to say:

It’s still too early to say what will happen as a result of this investigation. However, we can already state that [...] Google did indeed record email access passwords [and] extracts of the content of email messages.

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