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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. Continuing the summary: by cobrausn · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Stoddart asked Google to do four things before she would consider the matter closed: 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."

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    How does it feel to be a liar with pants constantly on fire?
  2. In other news... by Statecraftsman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Canada just filed a reverse class action suit against tens of thousands of Internet routers for briefly possessing the same information.