Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars. The €145,000 fine comes nearly three years after we first learned about the Street View WiFi...
Whitten ascended to the position of privacy director in the wake of the furore created by revelations that it had been collecting private Wi-Fi data via Google's Street View cars. Google representatives said the collection came when a piece of code...
Google has admitted it has discovered more WiFi data collected by its Street View cars that it has failed to delete. Google has recently confirmed that it still has in its possession a small portion of payload data collected by our Street View...
Criticism of the service was heightened when it was revealed that the imaging cars had been covertly harvesting information from passing wireless networks as they recorded street images for the service.
A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses using Google’s Street View cars, they included that code in their software—although the project leaders did not want...
Google Street View cars also used hidden Internet receivers to collect data that traveled across unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. The fallout from Google's Street View Wi-Fi data grab continues. Department of Justice (DOJ) to further investigate Google...
Google Racing: Self-Driving NASCAR Race Cars For those who enjoy spending Sunday afternoons watching cars speed around a track at 200 miles per hour but don’t like all that crashing, now there’s a Google racing team.
The incident was captured in November 2010 as one of Google’s Street View cars, which have cameras attached to the roof, drove past the unidentified plaintiff’s gated yard. Google Street View has often been the subject of controversy.
Google was previously investigated over the collection of Wi-Fi data from private accounts by its Street View cars. Google, which has been getting heat over tracking Safari and Internet Explorer users, is expected to enable do-not-track in its...
The end result is that decisions are being made to promote the social network in a manner that impacts Google's core search business that generates $3.7B in annual revenue and finances everything from self-driving cars to the Google cafeteria.
I found myself browsing open fields, wondering what the images were meant to demonstrate – until I clicked through to snapshots of what the area had looked liked previously and realized that there had once been houses, forests, and cars at these...
Kids just running around with scarves around their faces", piling bags of loot into cars and vans. Videos also started to emerge on YouTube within only a few hours, with video footage of the looting being shot from the street or second floor...
This simple ruling means that anyone whose personal data was sniffed by the Street View cars can potentially seek damages from Google for violating the U.S. According to Wired, "the [Street View] cars also secretly gathered snippets of Americans...
Just a few brief weeks after Google Street View cars started driving on the streets of Bangalore, India, Google has halted its efforts. We are currently reviewing it and have stopped our cars until we have a chance to answer any questions or...
Google Lobbies Nevada to Allow Self-Driving Cars - The New York Times Google Street View to launch in Poland - Warsaw Business Journal Google considering shutting down Street View in Switzerland - Los Angeles Times
Officials in Seoul investigated Google in January, concluding Google's Street View cars had also illegally obtained information about WiFi networks and other personal data from over 600,000 South Korean wireless users.
Cars, Restaurants, Financial Services Top Study Of "Complaint Searches" - Search Engine Land A Street View showcase - Google LatLong Blog So Google spoke out against the rumors of Circles - their possible social platform - this weekend, using the...
Google notes they don't view them as replacements to the cars, simply a complimentary vehicle for capturing data. Google unrolled a new collection of street-view images this week, their largest yet. The images were captured by the google Street...
Schmidt Goes to Washington," the group demands Eric Schmidt be called before Congress for hearings about the data Google collected with its Street View mapping service cars. The group also accuses Google of having a secret relationship with the NSA...
It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. Google was increasingly being viewed as immobile, their attempts at social failed, Facebook became the "cool" company, governments started sniffing around, antitrust suits poured in or were...
