Matt Warman
telegraph.co.uk
July 27, 2012
Despite repeated assurances in public and to the Information Commissioner, Google has admitted that it did not in fact delete all the data, which could include passwords and emails, collected over open WiFi networks by its Streetview mapping cars in 2010 in a number of countries around the world.
The news means that Britain’s recently reopened investigation into the so-called WiFi snooping could be bolstered by an opportunity to re-examine evidence that the ICO had asked to be destroyed. The ICO has demanded to examine the data “immediately” to look for evidence that it is in fact more extensive than Google had originally claimed, as authorities in America had discovered for data collected there.
Other countries affected are Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria and Australia.
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well the post office are re mapping the streets .. ‘for use by law enforcement and other services’ .. taking pictures of entrance ways etc … i was speaking to the guy as he was mapping my house yesterday .. i was like wtf ?
it’s the police state prison grid they’re mapping out.