Report Finds Google Supervisors Knew About Wi-Fi Data Harvesting

bonch writes "According to the FCC report, Google's collection of Street View data was not the unauthorized act of a rogue engineer, as Google had portrayed it, but an authorized program known to supervisors and at least seven other engineers. The original proposal contradicts Google's claim that there was no intent to gather payload data: 'We are logging user traffic along with sufficient data to precisely triangulate their position at a given time, along with information about what they were doing.'"

Comments

Is there a source to the article?

[DaScribbler]

Is there a source to what is claimed in the article? I followed the links and find nothing to substantiate. Even the NYTimes links just references their own articles.

Re:Is there a source to the article?

[icebike]

I downloaded it the other day. Its available on Scribd. Its telling that this NYT hack fails to give the source link, and the more you read it the clearer it becomes that nobody really knew what Engineer Doe was up to, and even he didn't find any convincing use for the data.

Re:Motto??

[Darkness404]

I'm not really sure whats so "evil" about this. Google was simply doing what anyone else could with a computer running Wireshark could do. This would be evil if Google:

1) Collaborated with the government to alert the government about potential "illegal" activities being conducted

Or

2) Made attempts to crack wi-fi encryption