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Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data

Posted by samzenpus on from the coming-late-to-the-party dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has announced that Google's recent Wi-Fi sniffing was a serious violation of Canadians' privacy rights and included the collection of personally identifiable information. Stoddart's team, who traveled to Google's Mountain View headquarters to examine the data, found complete e-mails, e-mail addresses, usernames and passwords, names and residential telephone numbers and addresses. Google has been asked to do four things before the Canadian Government would consider the matter resolved."

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  1. Re:.... COME ON! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Only the 4th one would do much in this particular case, assuming Google's telling the truth. And if they're willing to lie, none of that is worth anything.