Google could be heading into stormy waters

[antijoke]

Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data!

Google is "almost certain" to face prosecution for collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks, according to Privacy International (PI).

full story

Anyone think this has room to grow and harm Google?

Seems like quite a few countries are up in arms about this.

 

[LiE]

Google cannot be harmed, for it is Google.

 

[Smit]

They will probably just face a huge fine and then business as usual.

 

[matkeys]

why have unprotected wifi any way. i mean its asking for trouble it self!!

 

[xJcBx]

Their fault for not using protection on their Wi-Fi.

 

[Cosimo]

We've been here already today:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=16720563&postcount=100

and it went to here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18145596

 

[antijoke]

/curses

 

[tntcoder]

Their fault for not using protection on their Wi-Fi.

No it's not their fault at all.

 

[Gaidin109]

Sneaky little Googlers. Throw the book at them.

 

[kwerk]

Criminal intent to do what?

 

[matkeys]

Criminal intent to do what?

"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,"

read the story in first post!

 

[NickK]

read the story in first post!

I wonder if Google front page will have a a bar of soap at the bottom next..

 

[SiriusB]

why have unprotected wifi any way. i mean its asking for trouble it self!!

Their fault for not using protection on their Wi-Fi.

That is absolutely no excuse to organize and keep the data they illegally collected.

It is not smart to have unprotected WiFi but Google should know better.

 

[jaybee]

They should be prosecuted for this imo.

 

[K1LLSW1TCH]

Google cannot be harmed, for it is Google.

^^

Didn't they get pulled up on something similar before?

 

[matkeys]

so long as google chrome and google web-page stays the same i couldn't care

there's more privacy robbing things in this world then some wifi data collecting, which to the point google has done nothing with it!

 

[britboy4321]

Their fault for not using protection on their Wi-Fi.

Yea and if you steal someone's x-box its 'their fault for not locking up their homes better'??

 

[Amnesia]

Yea and if you steal someone's x-box its 'their fault for not locking up their homes better'??

well the thief is only doing his job.

 

[neoboy]

Google have done a few naughty things in the past, they just have a better PR department than Microsoft and the like

 

[kwerk]

read the story in first post!

WHY were they doing it? What did they intend to accomplish?