Re: NEWS: Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data

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From: Char Jackson
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:14

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On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:22:03 -0700, John Navas <jncl1@navasgroup.com>
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>"The independent audit of the Google system shows that the system used
>for the wi-fi collection intentionally separated out unencrypted
>content (payload data) of communications and systematically wrote this
>data to hard drives. This is equivalent to placing a hard tap and a
>digital recorder onto a phone wire without consent or authorisation,"
>said PI in a statement.

I'm not defending Google, but I have to wonder how much "unencrypted
content (payload data)" they were able to gather as they drove down
the various streets. It seems like the vehicle would be out of range
before it could gather much payload data.

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