In March 2011, the search giant was fined €430,000 for breach of copyright and €100,000 for collecting wi-fi data from unsecured networks while collecting Street View images for Google Maps. Google has no obligation to “police (YouTube) content...
There simply isn’t a precedent for applying the law to unsecured Wi-Fi networks. Google escaped penalties associated with the Federal Communications Commission’s electronic eavesdropping law in the agency’s investigation of private user data...
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...
This privacy situation is also somewhat ironic, considering Google was fined €100,000 ($142,000 U.S.not too long ago after collecting emails and passwords off unsecured Wi-Fi networks with Street View.
This is the first fine leveled against Google after it was discovered last year that Google had collected Wi-Fi data, including e-mails and passwords, from unsecured networks while collecting Street View images for Google Maps.
The South Korean government said Google had violated privacy collecting "e-mails and other personal information from unsecured wireless networks while it took photos of neighborhoods in South Korea for its Street View mapping service between...
Google collected private data, including full e-mails and passwords, off unsecured wireless networks with its Street View cars worldwide. Google may have breached Australia's Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act, but the Australian...
We've detailed Google's recent struggles in Italy, England, Germany, Canada, and Spain over the past week in connection to both Street View's photography of homes as well as the personal data, including e-mails and passwords, the cars collected...
We believe it does not violate U.S.law to collect payload data from networks that are configured to be openly accessible (i.e.not secured by encryption and thus accessible by any user's device)," wrote Pablo Chavez, director of public policy, in...
Sniffing traffic of unsecured networks as you drive past, Google Street View? SEW presents the weekend column. We have reserved Saturdays to invite people outside of 'the industry' to share their thoughts on our industry.
