Google spy-scum: Street View cars stole information from households but execs ‘covered it up’

- Work of Street View cars to be examined over allegations Google used them to download personal details
- Emails, texts, photos and documents taken from wi-fi networks as cars photographed British roads
- Engineer who designed software said a privacy lawyer should be consulted
- Calls for police and Information Commissioner to investigate new evidence

Jack Doyle and Daniel Bates
Mail Online
May 28, 2012

Google is facing an inquiry into claims that it deliberately harvested information from millions of UK home computers.

The Information Commissioner data protection watchdog is expected to examine the work of the internet giant’s Street View cars.

They downloaded emails, text messages, photographs and documents from wi-fi networks as they photographed virtually every British road.

(…) Now the full scale of its activities has emerged amid accusations of a cover-up after US regulators found a senior manager was warned as early as 2007 that the information was being captured as its cars trawled the country but did nothing.

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This article was posted: Monday, May 28, 2012 at 7:03 am

Tags: domestic spying, technology

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