Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, URLs and Passwords"

Re:Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, U... by privacyguru on Friday October 22, 2010 @03:52PM (#1821206)

Cryptoz -- I agree, all public data once it is broadcasted. But as the article says "While the data was technically broadcasted to the public and anyone with the know-how and appropriate gear could collect the same information, it would be hard for anyone to collect such data on the massive scale that Google did." -- Google should have known better. Someone knew what data they were collecting.

And yes, people should have secured their wireless routers.

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Re:Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, U... by randomtask on Friday October 22, 2010 @04:10PM (#1821293)

> it would be hard for anyone to collect such data on the massive scale that Google did

So collecting that information is only unethical when done on a large scale?

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Re:Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, U... by privacyguru on Friday October 22, 2010 @04:28PM (#1821371)

Not saying that, just that it's more of an issue when a company like Google does it. People go "war driving" all the time and that isn't a big deal - but when a company like Google does, it's a bigger deal. And Google probably isn't a threat with the data, but people need to just secure their networks! Maybe it's a good lesson and better in the long run actually!

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Re:Google Admits Streetview Cars Collected "Entire Emails, U... by randomtask on Friday October 22, 2010 @04:49PM (#1821440)

> it's more of an issue when a company like Google does it

I don't know if it's more of an issue, but articles like this one make it more visible certainly.

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