11:29 Google «by mistake collecting private data from wifinetworks | |
| On Saturday Habre slipped past, but remains virtually unnoticed by the news about the scandal with Google Street View car in Germany. But this case deserves a more detailed discussion. As you know, Street View cars originally designed for photographing the streets to supplement map database Google Maps. But some time ago revealed that in addition to this car collecting a database SSID and MAC-addresses of all WiFi-networks that fall into the access area. Since the cars thoroughly go round all the way, Google gets nearly 100% of private WiFi-card points. This fact has caused suspicions of the German authorities, and the Data Protection Agency (DPA) held in Hamburg audit of one car Street View. And then it turned out terrible. It turned out that the car is not only detects the SSID and MAC-addresses, but also fully captures all traffic that is passed to the open WiFi-networks. Saturday, 15 May, the company Google has officially recognized this fact and explained that it was programmer error, dating back to 2006. According to representatives of Google, to intercept traffic from WiFi-networks was part of a pilot project, and the code is accidentally hit by cars Street View. The company has promised to remove collected during three years of data "as quickly as possible" and immediately stop collecting information in WiFi-networks with machines Street View. "This incident shows just how open to the public unprotected password access point WiFi», - commented Alan Eustace (Alan Eustace), a leading developer Google. He also adds, referring to all users: "My team of programmers Google works hard to gain your trust - and we are acutely aware that here we are very much failed." | |
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