11:20 Google street view cars spied around the world? | |
| History of illegal WiFi-sniffer installed in the car Google Street View in Germany continues to unwind and take alarming proportions. Yesterday the Governor of Connecticut announced that authorities have begun an official investigation into the illegal collection of WiFi-data vehicles Street View. Moreover, according to the governor, a similar investigation began more than 30 (!) States in America. Even before the start of the investigation on the same business announced a number of European countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic. May 15, Google has officially acknowledged that the collection of traffic in Germany and has apologized for this programming error, dated 2006. Due to technical Gluck cars were registered not only the MAC-address, and SSID-network identifier, but also accidentally recorded the private traffic that passes through open WiFi-network. Eric Schmidt said that to blame for one programmer. Now the firm's representatives continued to apologize and added that they cooperate with law enforcement authorities and hope that does not violate any U.S. laws. " According to the latest citation, WiFi sniffers have been installed not only in Germany but also in other countries. Perhaps it was a regular complete all the cars Google Street View in all countries where these machines are shooting a subject area. Since 2007 they have traveled almost all the U.S. cities. Most likely in the near future lawsuits from all states will be merged into a class action lawsuit, and court hearings will transfer to the federal Court of California, where the headquarters of Google. On the merger itself claims requests to Google, which does not have the resources for the simultaneous proceedings in dozens of ships. | |
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