Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Bloomberg: Google Rebuffed by U.S. High Court on Privacy Lawsuit

"The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc. (GOOG), leaving the company to face lawsuits accusing it of violating a federal wiretapping law by secretly collecting personal data while developing its Street View maps."
The justices today left intact a federal appeals court ruling that the U.S. Wiretap Act protects the privacy of information on unencrypted in-home Wi-Fi networks.

Google, the world’s most-used Internet search engine, is accused in class-action lawsuits of gathering e-mails, user names and passwords while using a fleet of camera-equipped vehicles that drove around the country to collect images for Street View.
 
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The Daily Dot: Erasing your home from Google Maps is way easier than you think

4 comments:

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

It would seem that Google not only failed to supply Arrested Development with the street view car parodied in Season 4, it even denied pemission to use its logo. LINK.

Maybe that's true and maybe it isn't.

But if it's true, I can appreciate that Google would want to protect its privacy, after all.

deborah said...

"Google, the world’s most-used Internet search engine, is accused in class-action lawsuits of gathering e-mails, user names and passwords while using a fleet of camera-equipped vehicles that drove around the country to collect images for Street View."

Is this really true? If so, that is fucking, amazingly unreal. I cannot believe the chutzpah. I can't believe I spelled that correctly.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Who doesn't encrypt and password protect their wi-fi!?!?

Not just Google, but anyone could get onto your system and get all sorts of information if they wanted to do so.

deborah said...

Yes, but for what reason would a company like google do it? I need an in depth article.

lol, it's like the final words in the Cabaret clip...'do you really think you can stop them now?'