In the US, are beginning to investigate the collection of data by Google

For some reason, the US Federal Communications Commission is interested in Google’s misconduct among the latter. Let me remind you that the offense lies in the fact that Google Street View cars equipped with WiFi wireless communication modules collected data from open WiFi networks for six months. This was discovered not long ago, and Canada was the first to sound the alarm, in which the first lawsuit with Google began. After Google proved that the data collection was done unintentionally, they calmed down in Canada, the trial ended in nothing. After this issue was raised in Spain and other countries, well, and now - in the United States.

It is also worth recalling that the project collected about 6 terabytes of such data (not photographs of streets and buildings, namely, data from users of open wireless networks). The engineer who created the software, which, as it turned out, collects all this data, is punished, and Google even changed some corporate rules, strengthening the direction of the safety of user data.
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Other data collected by the corporation included information on wireless networks, user passwords / logins from various services, websites, email and so on. It is clear that very few people can be happy with the fact that personal data is taken into extraneous hands. Yes, you can once again be surprised at the carelessness of those who work with open networks - but this is not necessarily stupid users who have forgotten to set a password for their network. It may be a network of some organizations, universities, etc.

Now the FCC is addressing this issue, trying to find out whether Google has violated the Law on Communications in the United States, and if so, the company will be punished. Interestingly, at first, Google denied the possibility of collecting any information at all, then reported that the data was collected nothing at all, and only then the company had to admit that such data was collected within six months, and a huge array was collected. In October, Google in the United States seems to have been left alone, but now the question has been raised again, and it is unlikely that everything will end safely - most likely, companies will still have to pay a fine. On the other hand, Google is protected by fairly competent lawyers, so a favorable outcome is possible. But let's not try to guess the future - let's wait for the development of events.

Via yahoo