According to reports, the cars were collecting payload data from open Wi-Fi points for around four years. Whitten ascended to the position of privacy director in the wake of the furore created by revelations that it had been collecting private Wi...
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...
We have always said that the project leaders did not want and did not use this payload data. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reopened its investigation into Google's Street View Wi-Fi collecting in light of recent revelations that...
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 The fallout from Google's Street View Wi-Fi data grab continues. Department of Justice (DOJ) to further investigate Google's Street View service, specifically whether Google violated the Wiretap...
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...
Google, which collected payload data (including emails, email addresses, user names and passwords, telephone numbers) from unsecured WiFi networks – triggering numerous government investigations and some fines – is trying to get a class-action...
In March 2011, a French court fined Google €100,000 for collecting payload data from unencrypted WiFi networks while collecting Street View images for Google Maps. A commercial court in Paris has ordered Google France and parent company Google Inc...
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. This is the first fine leveled against Google after it was...
Google's response: "As we have said before, we are profoundly sorry for having mistakenly collected payload data from unencrypted networks. We did not want and have never used the payload data in any of our products and services.
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. Google escaped an FTC investigation without incurring any penalties, but now they face a new...
Then, there's the potential impact of all the negative press on Google this quarter: for instance AdMob being blocked by Apple just as Google's buy of AdMob was cleared by regulators; its acknowledged failure in collecting payload data; the...
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.
Last week, it was Google who owed that it had "failed badly" as it emerged the search giant's Street View cars had collected payload data without permission across Europe and the U.S. Again, it is a news article that set fire to the situation: the...
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...
