Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @10:19AM 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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Re:.... COME ON! by Monkeedude1212 · 2010-10-20 10:23 · Score: 5, Informative

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