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Google Found Guilty of Australian Privacy Breach
schliz writes "The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found Google guilty of breaching the country's Privacy Act when it collected unsecured WiFi payload data with its Street View vehicles. While the Commissioner could not penalize the company, Google agreed to publish an apology on its Australian blog, and work more closely with her during the next three years. Globally, Google is said to have collected some 600 GB of data transmitted over public WiFi networks. In May, the company put its high-definition Australian Street View plans on hold to audit its processes."
As I've said many times in the past, Google has done absolutely nothing wrong. People are 100% free to collect any and ALL insecure, unencrypted wireless data that I send out any time. That's just the way it is. All of this makes me SO mad...governments going after Google for nothing! It's absurd. They want to do this just so that people can continue living in ignorance of how exposed they are? It's pathetic...and as others have pointed out, a huge waste of taxpayer money. Google has nothing to apologize for. Hell, they should take the data they sniffed and send ads based on it!