FCC Wants To Fine Google $25K For WiFi Investigation

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday April 15, 2012 @06:32AM from the dragging-your-feet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's good and bad news for Google. The FCC has ruled that Google did nothing wrong when it accidentally collected WiFi data with its Street View cars: '[The FCC] concluded that there was no precedent for the commissions' enforcement of the law in connection with WiFi networks. The FCC also noted that, according to the available evidence, Google only collected data from unencrypted WiFi networks, not encrypted ones, and that it never accessed or used the data.' However, they want to fine the company $25,000 because it 'deliberately impeded and delayed the investigation.'"

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Re:Also known as by noh8rz3 · 2012-04-15 07:00 · Score: -1, Troll

You have to understand that Google is growing to be one of the largest public menaces of today. $25k fine for blocking an investigation - no prob. Just make the engineer take the 5th and "lose" internal emails. Much cheaper than dealing with the consequences of your actions.
The one thing preventing a major threat from Goog is that they can't execute on anything anymore. All of their recent initiatives have been failures (buzz, chrome, goog+), with the possible exception of android, which is still on the fence.
this leaves Facebook as the greatest threat to public freedom right now.