I recently wrote about privacy issues raised by Google's Street View programme. It turns out that things are worse than initially thought, as per the Times:
Google’s Street View cars have been spying on people’s internet use for three years, the search giant admitted last night. It had been scooping up snippets of people’s online activities broadcast over unprotected home and business wi-fi networks.
Google admitted that the cars’ radio antennae snooped on e-mails and other bits of information when the vehicles trundled through towns and cities. Google said that the data was mistakenly collected and only in short bursts as the vehicles passed by, and was never used.
Emphasis added.
Some thought Big Brother Watch was overreacting when we criticised Street View. I simply make the point that Google has found an entirely new way to invade privacy that we hadn't even considered when questioning Street View first time around.
Hat tip: AC
