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Google Audits Street View Data Systems

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-meant-to-do-that dept.

schliz writes "Google's plans to upgrade to high-definition Street View in Australia are on hold until it completes a rigorous internal audit of the processes, it announced today. The company is currently being investigated by international regulators about possible privacy breaches when it became known that its Street View vehicles were capturing not only publicly available SSIDs and MAC addresses, but also samples of payload data transmitted over these networks."

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  1. Re:WTF by ladylardbottom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    aww crap gonna get banned by /. -- meh.