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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Article comment puts it best by brunes69 · 2010-10-20 10:30 · Score: 5, Insightful

registraruser
October 19, 2010 8:07pm
Whoa! A company stored lists of patients with a medical condition and contact information on a computer connected to an *UNSECURED and UNENCRYPTED* wireless network, and we are supposed to believe that Google is the "bad guy"?