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Report Finds Google Supervisors Knew About Wi-Fi Data Harvesting

Posted by samzenpus on from the who's-to-blame dept.

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.'"

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  1. Who the hell cares? by elbonia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's sum up the whole thing, "Google had not violated any laws". That's straight from the article and the FCC investigation report. Not one single law was broken, PERIOD. So how is this news? If the NYT really wants to do news about privacy rights why doesn't it put the bullshit CISPA on the front page instead of ignoring it.

  2. Re:What people figured all along by poetmatt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dude we know you're biased as shit. You submitted the article! Just give up and admit that you either have a clear bias or are paid by or affiliated with Microsoft, directly or indirectly.

    However, the difference between Google and MS/Apple is that in MS/Apple's case it'd be a quiet settlement with no details.

    With google, what happens? Straight up honesty. 100% un-redacted other than the user's names.