Liz Gannes in News on May 1 at 3:00 am PT
New York Times reporters appear to have identified the Google engineer who designed a program that had the company’s Street View cars collecting personal info from Wi-Fi networks.
Amir Efrati and Don Clark in News on April 29 at 8:34 pm PT
A Google Inc. engineer told others at the company about his plan to scoop up personal information from wireless-network users as specially equipped cars drove by their homes, but the practice continued for two years after the internal disclosures, a Federal Communications Commission investigation found.
John Paczkowski in News on April 18 at 3:03 pm PT
The outcry over Google’s Wi-Spy debacle continues.
John Paczkowski in News on September 19, 2011 at 1:06 pm PT
Try not to cross the creepy line again, okay, Eric?
John Paczkowski in News on May 3, 2011 at 1:05 pm PT
Police raids at Google’s South Korean headquarters are becoming a regular occurrence. This morning, agents from Seoul’s Metropolitan Police Agency descended on Google’s Yeoksam-dong offices as part of an investigation into whether the company has been illegally collecting consumer location data through its mobile ad platform.
John Paczkowski in News on March 21, 2011 at 11:21 am PT
It’s a pittance to Google, but the $142,000 fine France’s data privacy regulator slapped the company with today for inadvertently harvesting consumer data with its Street View cars does set something of a precedent. Meted out by France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, or CNIL, the sanction is the agency’s highest ever and the first penalty levied against Google for data collection practices that have drawn complaints from dozens of countries.
John Paczkowski in News on February 16, 2011 at 12:26 pm PT
Add two more names to the growing list of lawmakers crying foul over the Google WiSpy debacle. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Reps. John Barrow (D-Ga.) and Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) urge the agency to conduct a full investigation into the inadvertent collection of user data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks by Google’s Street View cars.
John Paczkowski in News on January 28, 2011 at 2:22 pm PT
Saying settlement talks are in the offing, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen won’t pursue his predecessor’s demand to review the consumer data inadvertently harvested by Google’s Street View cars.
