10:26 In the United States begin an investigation on the data collection corporation google | |
For some reason, U.S. Federal Communications Commission interested in the offense of Google, among the latter. Let me remind you that the fault lies in the fact that the cars Google Street View, equipped with wireless communication modules WiFi, within six months collecting data from public WiFi networks. It was discovered not so long ago, and the first to sound the alarm, Canada, in which the first trial started with Google. Once Google has proved that data collection was made unintentionally, in Canada, settled down, the court concluded nothing. After the issue was raised in Spain and other countries, well, now - in the U.S.. It should also be recalled that the project has collected about 6 terabytes of data (not images of streets and buildings, namely data users of open wireless networks). The engineer who created the software, which, as it turned out, going to all these data, punished, and Google has even changed some of the corporate policies, reinforcing the direction of preservation of user data. Among other data collected by the corporation, caught the attention of wireless networks, passwords / logins of users from different services, websites, email and so on. It is clear that few people can be happy fact of leaving personal information in foreign hands. Yes, you can once again marvel carelessness of those who work with open networks - but it is not necessarily a stupid users who have forgotten to set a password on your network. This may be a network of some organizations, universities, etc. Now FCC deals with this issue, trying to figure out whether Google violated the law on communications in the U.S., and if so, the company will be punished. It is interesting that the first Google denies the possibility of collecting any information, then reported that data were collected nothing, and only then, the company had to acknowledge that such data was collected over six months and had huge array. In October, Google in the U.S. sort of left alone, but now the question is raised again, and it is unlikely all will end well - most likely, the companies still have to pay a fine. On the other hand, Google is enough to protect competent lawyers, so it is possible and favorable outcome of the case but will not try to guess the future - will wait for developments. Via Yahoo | |
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