30 US States Sign Up To Investigate Google’s Street View Scandal
Google’s Street View software will come under more scrutiny this week as it was announced that a multi-state investigation will take place in America.
Google has admitted that its software “accidentally” accessed unprotected wi-fi networks as their Street View cars drove around 30 countries across the world.
The investigation will attempt to find out how the piece of “rogue code” responsible for the privacy breach got into the software.
Google has so far blamed a “single engineer”, but hasn’t elaborated on the matter. The US investigation, led by Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, will look deep into Google’s working practices in a bid to understand how such an “accident” could happen.
30 US states have so far signed up to the investigation.
Mr Blumenthal said: “Street View cannot mean Complete View – invading home and business computer networks and vacuuming up personal information and communications.
“Consumers have a right and a need to know what personal information – which could include e-mails, web browsing and passwords – Google may have collected and why. Google must come clean,” he added.
French internet security firm CNIL have already uncovered some of what Google has collected from the unsecured wi-fi networks, which included sensitive date like email passwords. They are now considering whether to begin legal proceedings against the search giant.
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on Jun 23 2010. Filed under Latest News, Technology.
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