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Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data
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."
Double posting to answer my own question. Those 4 things are:
Put in place a governance model to ensure that privacy is protected when new products are launched;
enhance privacy training to foster compliance amongst all employees;
designate an individual responsible for privacy issues;
and delete the Canadian data
Yes, we are, at least I am. Privacy is perceived different in different countries. Where in the US everything that is not happening in a private place is considered public, a lot of other countries feel that it is not so much the location as it is the person that has a right on privacy.
Doing the right thing is not the same as not doing anything illegal. So just because you can does not mean you must.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Google recorded data that people were actively broadcasting in the clear for anyone in range to receive. /quote>
While true, it is not legal for a corporation to capture and store this data because it is still considered private.
(Incidentally I happen to agree with you, they were shouting the information to anyone who would listen.)
Actually, it's a levy.