FCC Investigating Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Collection

adeelarshad82 writes "The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether Google's Street View Wi-Fi data collection violated the Communications Act. At issue is a May admission from Google that equipment attached to its Street View cars collected data that was traveling over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, known as payload data. At first Google said it did not know if that data included personally identifiable information, but the company admitted last month that it did include entire e-mail addresses, URLs, and passwords. Google has pledged to work with the FCC."

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Re:War-driving

[garyisabusyguy]

Hmmm, illegal acts like enabling people to find an available wireless connection without paying ATT or Verizon for it?

Yeah, shame on them how dare they enable people to connect to the internet without paying out the ass for it, just plain un-American!