10:36 Google has admitted in a random collection of passwords logins email some Internet users during the auto street view | |
You can say that this is already long been known that when working Street View cars have been accidentally received some private data of users who are not too important. Back in April, Google representatives said that in addition to Mac addresses, available to all identifiers wireless WiFi network SSID, is nothing in the hands of corporations are not horrible. They repeated this summer, and even a week ago, when Canada began a serious hearing on the subject. As it turns out, is not so simple - by accident of the data collected was more than just the SSID and Mac-address. The Corporation has received quite an extensive database of e-mail addresses, usernames and spill them, plus the addresses of sites visited by users that are viewed by users at the moment when the car Google. By the way, this company reported just today, represented by Alan Eustace, senior vice president of Google's engineering support (link). Data thus obtained so far no one has deleted. Of course, hardly anyone would suspect that Google is engaged in surveillance of any of unsuspecting users. It is likely, of negligence, which is inexcusable for a company of this scale as Google. Collect data from public networks, and store them on your servers - hardly anyone of the users may like it, given the scale of the project Google Street. And the worst part is that so far everything is held back - why? Say that the accident had been collected only poppy addresses and identifiers, but actually "caught" and turnout, passwords, logins, passwords, addresses, websites and more. Sam Eustace said that until now the corporation is simply not analyzed in detail the data collected, so all that happened. In principle, the same may be true - such volumes of data can hardly be treated for a day or two. Incidentally, the first about a similar issue reported by the representatives of the Government of Canada, and Google denied the opportunity to collect passwords and usernames of users, but it was like saying Canadians. No one to inflate out of molehills do not become, and the case was closed with a mark of "unintentional mistake". Before the Canadians and the French reported that the corporation collected the data found the passwords and user names, plus some other private information. So, now the corporation is working to ensure that such situations are impossible. Another high-ranking corporate executives, Alma Whitten, promises to introduce a new security program for all projects of the corporation. This will happen in December. In general, and the old woman is proruha what else to say. Let us hope that such cases would still be less. Via CNET | |
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