Link for July 11th, 2010

French find e-mail passwords in Google Street View data

Clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Google scooped up sensitive data such as passwords when putting together its Street View service, suggests an early look at the information.

The examination was carried out by French data protection agency CNIL as it decides whether to prosecute the search firm for gathering the data.

The data was gathered as Google logged wi-fi hotspots to help it develop location-based services.

Previously, Google said there was “no harm, no foul” in collecting the data.

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Google’s Street View faces multi-state US probe

Clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

US state Connecticut will lead a multi-state investigation into Google’s collection of wi-fi data.

It is the latest in a series of global investigations aimed at the firm.

Google has admitted that its Street View cars “accidentally” collected data from unsecured wi-fi networks in 30 countries because of some rogue code in the software used by the service.

The US investigation will attempt to answer how that code ended up being used by Street View.

Google has explained that the data was gathered as it logged wi-fi hotspots to help it develop location-based services. It has since stopped collecting such data.

But it has never gone into details about how the software came to be included in the Street View system, saying just that it was the work of a “single engineer”.

The US investigation aims to drill down into Google’s working practices.

It will ask the search giant who inserted the code and why, whether the data was extracted and why Google saved it.

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