According to reports, the cars were collecting payload data from open Wi-Fi points for around four years. At the time, Google reported that the data collection was a mistake. Google representatives said the collection came when a piece of code was...
Google has recently confirmed that it still has in its possession a small portion of payload data collected by our Street View vehicles in the UK. In conducting that review, we have determined that we continue to have payload data from the UK and...
The FCC's 17-month investigation found that Google supervisors and Street View engineers had known about the plan to collect so-called payload data. A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID...
In its ruling, the FCC accused Google of “deliberately” impeding and delaying the 17-month investigation into Google’s collection of payload data (including emails, email addresses, user names, passwords, names, telephone numbers, addresses, and...
Google Says "Failed Badly" On Payload Data Collection Google has previously faced government scrutiny over the collection of wireless data by Street View teams all around the world. Google Stops Street View Data Collection After Canada, Spain...
Google Says "Failed Badly" On Payload Data Collection Google escaped penalties associated with the Federal Communications Commission’s electronic eavesdropping law in the agency’s investigation of private user data collection through Street View...
As we have said before, we are profoundly sorry for having mistakenly collected payload data from unencrypted WiFi networks," said Google's lawyer for privacy issues, Peter Fleischer. Google Stops Street View Data Collection After Canada, Spain...
As we assured the F.T.C.which has closed its inquiry, we did not want and have never used the payload data in any of our products and services. Joe Barton of Texas last week suggested in an interview on C-SPAN that Google's data collection wasn't...
Its spokeswoman, Christine Chen, was quoted by ThomsonReuters as saying: "As we've said before, it was a mistake for us to include code in our software that collected payload data, but we believe we did nothing illegal.
In the long list of legal issues Google is facing at the moment, here's another one to add to the record: Consumer Watchdog suspects the Mountain View-based company to have picked up unprotected payload data (i.e.
The independent audit of the Google system shows that the system used for the wi-fi collection intentionally separated out unencrypted content (payload data) of communications and systematically wrote this data to hard drives.
An even more annoying stance as the blog then goes on to reveal that the code allowing collection of such payload data was being used despite all better judgement and against decisions from the hierarchy: "They included that code in their software...
