Giant in the realm of online search engines, Google, threatened a lawsuit in court to face the United States (U.S.) over the activities of the operational vehicle data collection by its Street View service has.A judge in San Francisco court ruled that the company lived activity was likely to violate the law of the federal government about the eavesdropping.
Google tries to fight the lawsuit by asserting that anyone can catch the wifi signal.
Previously, as reported by the BBC's pages, Google does not accidentally get the data when taking pictures for the Street View service.
Proof of negligence that led to the cessation of effort into the wifi network by Google.
The problem was revealed in 2010 when German officials asked Google data protector mention what information is captured by Street View vehicle. The cars are generally deployed to take pictures of streets and buildings.
However, it is evident that in addition to taking pictures, the vehicles also access a wifi network in order to obtain location data.
Data packets from the wifi spots among the information he gets. In an open network that is not encrypted, the embedded system on a car capable of getting the user name, password and other personal information. They managed to get 600 MB of data from 30 countries.
Google apologized for mistakes and errors in applying lean with programming code. They promise it will erase all data.
Some countries provoked an investigation. France decided to penalize Google as much as 100 thousand euros.
In the U.S., the lawsuit was filed in California courts, the headquarters of Google, and on behalf of nine states.
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