[Year 12 IT Apps] U4O2 - Google takes a privacy beating

[Timmer-Arends]

For a company that claims as one of its corporate goals 'do no evil' it's 
sure been skating on thin ice lately

Regards
Robert T-A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark KELLY" <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
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> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/google-sued/
>
> "At least three lawsuits have been filed against search engine giant
> Google for collecting Wi-Fi user data through its Street View cameras.
>
> The lawsuits have been filed in California, Massachusetts and Oregon.
> They allege that Google violated federal and state privacy laws in
> collecting fragments of data from unencrypted wireless networks as its
> fleet of camera-equipped cars moseyed through neighborhoods snapping
> pictures."
>
> Read More 
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/google-sued/#ixzz0p4lxuis7
>
>
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