Google Admits To Violating Your Privacy With Its Street View Cars
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Between 2008 and 2010, Google's Street View cars collected passwords and other private information from home wireless networks.
But Google says the incident was a mistake, citing an experimental piece of computer code in the cars' software that accidentally collected users' private information.
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As part of the settlement, Google has to educate its employees about user privacy and sponsor a nationwide campaign about protecting yourself on wireless networks. It also must destroy all of the data it collected.
For a company like Google $7 million is less than pocket change. It's nothing.
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