FCC Reports That Google Used Self Driving Cars To Intentionally Capture Personal Data From Millions

New revelations in a full report detailing the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into Google's Street View service are raising questions about whether the search giant escaped scrutiny for capturing personal information from millions of unknowing households across the nation.

Chief among the new disclosures: The engineer who intentionally wrote the software code that made it possible for Street View cars to capture emails, passwords and other data from unprotected wireless networks told fellow engineers and a senior manager that he had done so, according to the report.

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atc98092 - 4/30/2012 6:44:28 PM

+3 Boost

009: While I deplore what Google did, regardless of what level the knowledge went, if you read the article carefully you will find no mention anything about the self-driving cars. This was about their Street Views cars.

I am usually one of your defenders, but this is just sloppy.