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To: axial who wrote (33626)	5/15/2010 12:35:23 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) of 46821

Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake By Brad Stone \| NY Times \| May 14, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Friday that for more than three years it had inadvertently collected snippets of private information that people send over unencrypted wireless networks. The admission, made in an official blog post by Alan Eustace, Google’s engineering chief, comes a month after regulators in Europe started asking the search giant pointed questions about Street View, the layer of real-world photographs accessible from Google Maps. Regulators wanted to know what data Google collected as its camera-laden cars methodically trolled through neighborhoods, and what Google did with that data. Google’s Street View misstep adds to the widespread anxiety about privacy in the digital age and the apparent willingness of Silicon Valley engineers to collect people’s private data without permission. Article continues: nytimes.com Below: In Amsterdam, a Google Street View camera takes images. The cars also gathered some private data sent over Wi-Fi networks: ------

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