faizone 15 Report post Posted May 15, 2010 Source SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information that consumers send over wireless networks. The company said on Friday that it is currently in touch with regulators in several countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Brazil and Hong Kong, about how to dispose of the data, which Google said it never used. "It's now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks," Google Senior VP of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace said in a post on Google's official blog on Friday. "As soon as we became aware of this problem, we grounded our Street View cars and segregated the data on our network, which we then disconnected to make it inaccessible," Eustace said. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kshah 452 Report post Posted May 15, 2010 Google, in my opinion is becoming threat. I use almost all services from google. But They are not as ethical as they appear. Google chrome browser and Android 2.1 is its best example. Where if you do not agree to share your location data anonymously, they do not allow you to use GPS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dkaile 1,051 Report post Posted May 15, 2010 ^ dont get paranoid friend.... Google has given us too much in return for free than any other business house; of course it has to earn money also to survive and uses ads to generate it... but its business model is most consumer centric in comparison to others... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
faizone 15 Report post Posted May 15, 2010 (edited) true Dhiraj bhai.. IT has its own risks.. we should note that google had accidentally collected info from unprotected wi-fi access points.. in this case its the guys who left their access points open who should be responsible.. I do appreciate google's sense of responsibility in coming out with this finding.. There may be data taken by google searchbots from public domain servers.. who would we blame.. google.. not at all.. its the people who posted sensitive info in the public domain... This statement would certainly increase awareness among wifi users for wep protecting their access points Edited May 15, 2010 by faizone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HetalDP 947 Report post Posted May 15, 2010 We must know how to Protect our data @ Dhiraj you are 100% right Even Microsoft have patched 397 Vulnerability which allow Remote Code Execution now let me know how they make 397 Mistake in Code Coded by so many differnt team. Use your Brain to Protect Data Save Password at one Place but save its used id and another place. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
