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FCC: Google Staff Knew Street View Cars Stole Private Information The Google engineer behind the collection of wireless data by Street View cars told at least two colleagues – including a senior manager – about the controversial plans before it was released, a US regulator has found. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in a report that the Google engineer told colleagues in 2007 that his Street View programme could collect private information including emails and text messages. In a report published by Google on Sunday, the FCC said that five engineers were involved in implementing the Street View code but did not realise it could collect so-called payload data. “For more than two years, Google’s Street View cars collected names, addresses, telephone numbers, URLs, passwords, email, text messages, medical records, video and audio files, and other information from internet users in the United States,” the report said. Google was found to have collected similar data from users in the UK, Netherlands, France and other countries where its Street View cars operated. The FCC said that the engineer intended to collect and store the data for possible use in other Google projects. On at least one occasion, the engineer reviewed payload data to identify frequently visited websites, according to the report. Google was fined $25,000 (£15,300) earlier this month after the FCC said the company had impeded its investigation into the affair. Read More
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FCC: Google Staff Knew Street View Cars Stole Private Information

The Google engineer behind the collection of wireless data by Street View cars told at least two colleagues – including a senior manager – about the controversial plans before it was released, a US regulator has found.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in a report that the Google engineer told colleagues in 2007 that his Street View programme could collect private information including emails and text messages.

In a report published by Google on Sunday, the FCC said that five engineers were involved in implementing the Street View code but did not realise it could collect so-called payload data.

“For more than two years, Google’s Street View cars collected names, addresses, telephone numbers, URLs, passwords, email, text messages, medical records, video and audio files, and other information from internet users in the United States,” the report said.

Google was found to have collected similar data from users in the UK, Netherlands, France and other countries where its Street View cars operated.

The FCC said that the engineer intended to collect and store the data for possible use in other Google projects. On at least one occasion, the engineer reviewed payload data to identify frequently visited websites, according to the report.

Google was fined $25,000 (£15,300) earlier this month after the FCC said the company had impeded its investigation into the affair.

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    wow.. and 25,000… how fucking lovely these bastards are.
  4. magnastilo reblogged this from maxlibertarios and added:
    What a fucking joke! I would have fined those pieces of shit at least 35% worth of their company.
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    Our google overlords will soon rise to power as the one true government entity. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
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    … and they were fined $25,000. For stealing people’s information.
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    Thats bs they should be fined a lot more
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    WTH? They were just supposed to be filming the street!
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    Shit son, that ain’t cool.
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    $25,000! Haha, what a joke. They’re a multi billion dollar company, that’s nothing.
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