37 States Join Investigation of Google Street View

bonch writes "Attorneys General from 37 states have joined the probe into Google's Street View data collection. The investigation seeks more information behind Google's software testing and data archiving practices after it was discovered that their Street View vans scanned private WLANs and recorded users' MAC addresses. Attorney general Richard Blumenthal said, 'Google's responses continue to generate more questions than they answer. Now the question is how it may have used — and secured — all this private information.'"

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[Spad]

37 States jump on Google Street View bandwagon.

Hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

As I see it, your MAC and SSID are never private. If PBS has ever taught me anything, it's that the data on public access points such as the one I just connected to were brought to me by neighbors such as you.

-Posted from next door.

Re:Private Info?

[ElectricTurtle]

You're not putting these pieces together rationally... clearly he is a pit viper that has somehow learned to use a keyboard... or worse, a mad scientist has created a neural interface for pit vipers to post on Slashdot... and he taught it English! Who knows what a pit viper that can read and write English on the internet is capable of!