Google Probed By State Prosecutors Over Wi-Fi Mapping

"We've been tidying up a little, making our privacy policies and terms more consistent, easier to read and easier to understand. You see while privacy policies, ours included, may not be the most popular read on the Internet, we...

The problems for Google’s Street View service do not seem to be ending as the French data security agency has concluded that the tech giant collected WiFi location data extensively, following an investigation.According to...

A federal judge in the United States has rejected Google Inc.’s plea to dismiss several cases filed against the company,  accusing the company of storing personal data from several countries.San Francisco’s...

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Google, Facebook and a host of other big names have warned against a proposed privacy mechanism that will allow consumers to opt out of cookies and other forms of online tracking, in an open letter to California legislators....

The UK's leading privacy watchdog came under fire in the House of Commons yesterday as MPs lined up to condemn its lack of action over illegal Wi-fi data collection by Google Street View cars. The Information Commissioner's...

Google's fleet of Street View cars are back on UK roads - only this time they don't have the equipment to 'accidentally' collect personal data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.Writing in the Google Privacy Europe blog, the company...

Australian Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, said Google broke the law with its misguided Street View Wi-Fi snooping shenanigans. Having investigated the matter Curtis said; "On the information available I am satisfied that...

Master of the Internet, Google says it has agreed to hand over data it "mistakenly"  gathered from unsecured wireless networks in Europe. Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO told the Financial Times that the firm was ready to hand...

Google wants European privacy regulators to compromise over the amount of Wi-Fi data it has to submit to them.The Financial Times has reported that the search giant doesn't want to hand over as much data as the European privacy...

Google has refused to release one of the hard drives containing users' Wi-Fi information demanded by German authorities.The Financial Times reports that German prosecutors set a deadline for Google to hand over the hard drive as...

Google has missed the deadline German regulators had set for the snooping search engine outfit to hand over data it collected over private WiFi networks with its high-tech Street View vehicles. Missing the deadline means Google...

Google has come under criticism from European privacy regulators for its Street View project.The swipe came after Google was forced to disclose that since 2006, it had been collecting private data about wireless networks while it...

If you were ever in any doubt that you should never trust Google, it's latest antics should persuade you that the company is in fact evil. Google watches everything you do. If you use its search engine it has records that it can...