NEWS: Google's Wi-Fi snoop nabbed passwords and emails

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From: John Navas
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:39

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The Wi-Fi traffic collected by Google's world-roving Street View cars
included passwords and email, according to a report citing a preliminary
study from the French data protection authority.

IDG reports that the French National Commission on Computing and Liberty
(CNIL) has examined part of the data, after it was turned over by
Google. "It's still too early to say what will happen as a result of
this investigation," CNIL told IDG.

"However, we can already state that [...] Google did indeed record
e-mail access passwords [and] extracts of the content of email
messages."

MORE:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/18/google_street_view_cars_wifi_data_includes_emails_and_passwords/>

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