https://gizmodo.com/google-engineer-behind-street-view-data-breach-unmasked-5906550
When the data snoopingcame to light back in 2010 , Street View cars had already been elicit private information from insecure personal Wi - Fi internet around three years . According to Google , it all happened under the microwave radar , and as shortly as it found out about , it fessed up , justify , and assure to delete all the confutative datum . Turns out it did n’t .
https://gizmodo.com/google-snooped-on-you-for-three-years-but-is-profound-5539395
The news come out when the UK Information Commissioner ’s Office published a statementsaying that :
Google contacted the ICO to corroborate that it still had in its self-will some of the payload data collected by its Street View vehicle prior to May 2010 … Google indicate that they want to edit the remaining data and ask for the ICO ’s education on how to go along . Our response , which has already been issue , construct percipient that Google must supply the data to the ICO at once , so that we can subject it to forensic analytic thinking before deciding on the necessary course of action .
Just like when news of the breach broke , Google has shout this a error and apologise . It ’s motto may be “ Do n’t Be Evil ” but it ’s certainly opted to act first and apologize later at every stage in this whole debacle . Maybe it ought to give a little more attending to “ not being oblivious , mess up , and claiming ignorance every stone’s throw of the way . ” [ AllThingsD ]
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