Google Mortified Over Street View Data Harvest: Governments Jealous
GOOGLE Street View takes photos your stuff and sticks it on the internet. It’s the Pavement Paparazzi. And that’s not all. Google Street View can also take your passwords and emails from home computers using antennae enabled to scan for wireless networks. It has downloaded information from networks not protected by a password.
Google executive Alan Eustace says in a blog post:
“I would like to apologize again for the fact that we collected it in the first place. We are mortified by what happened…
“We’re acutely aware that we failed badly.”
Failed. How? The company managed to get cars to create a new A to Z for people who can now navigate by tramps sat on benches and the woman at No.22 who bathes with the window open. It also managed to harvest lots of valuable data.
Google wins. The Government needed to erect lots of CCTV cameras and devise laws to breach our personal liberties. Google did it with a fleet of crappy hatchbacks and a big idea …
Posted: 24th, October 2010 | In: Technology Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
