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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. .... COME ON! by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google has been asked to do four things before the Canadian Government would consider the matter resolved

    You're going to end the summary there? What a damn cliffhanger!

    1. Re:.... COME ON! by CosmeticLobotamy · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, that's it. Just any four things. Google put on a hat, shaved, ate a pinecone, and made a collage celebrating Montreal. Canada was like, "A'ight."

  2. Canada wants that internet money by xda · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was one of the 4 things " hey guy, we want to get in on some of that internet money" ?

  3. Re:Pay attention class... by dogsbreath · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've got a bunch of crazy laws.

    In the states, if you get caught downloading music, you get sued by Sony BMG...

    In Canada, we basically assume you payed your blank media tax.

    You insensitive clod: it's not a tax; it's a fee.

    Feel better?