Google not guilty of wi-fi snooping

Google illegally harvested private data whilst gathering information for its Street View service in South Korea, the country’s police said on Thursday.South Korea has become the latest country to find Google in breach of...

South Korean police have finally realised what the rest of us have known for yonks – Google's Street View cars were snaffling up e-mails and other personal information from private Wi-fi networks as they trundled around the...

Vandals have attacked the houses of German home-owners who opted out of Google's Street View service, which began rolling out across the country this month. Homes in the Bergerhausen area of Essen, western Germany were pelted...

Google has been let off very lightly by the Information Commissioner Office after it promised to delete all the Wi-Fi data that its Street View cars had downloaded in the UK. One however must ask (a) who will check whether...

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an investigation into Google's Street View service.The investigation will determine whether or not the search giant broke privacy laws by collecting user data from...

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...

The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has ended the inquiry into the admission by Google earlier this year that its fleet of cars had inadvertently collected data from thousands of households and businesses while...

Google has announced that it is blurring out a not inconsiderable portion of Germany in its Street View service, following complaints from over 244,000 households.The requests to remove their property represent around three...

Google's StreetView service has been found to have violated Canadian privacy laws, but has decided not to press legal charges against the company. Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said that the Wi-Fi snooping performed by...

Spain has become the latest country to take search giant Google to task over the unauthorised gathering of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars. The country joins a queue of territories already investigating claims that the...

Twitter is preparing to offer its promoted tweets products to third party developers for testing and trial purposes. The micro blogging platform has offered developers of third party websites access to two of its promoted...

Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Chinese internet games developer Handseeing Information Technology. Speaking to the state-run Xinhua news agency, Handseeing deputy general manager Tian Bo said that negotiations were still...

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...

The Attorney-General of Connecticut has said that 37 states have joined the probe he launched into the collection of Wi-Fi data by Google Street View cars, the Wall Street Journal reported today.The investigation will look into...

Google will soon start to collect data for its Street View service in further European countries and in South Africa, news agency Reuters reported today.According to a post published by the search giant on its European Public...