Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data 136
adeelarshad82 writes "Canada's privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has announced that Google's recent Wi-Fi sniffing was a serious violation of Canadians' privacy rights and included the collection of personally identifiable information. Stoddart's team, who traveled to Google's Mountain View headquarters to examine the data, found complete e-mails, e-mail addresses, usernames and passwords, names and residential telephone numbers and addresses. Google has been asked to do four things before the Canadian Government would consider the matter resolved."
Re:.... COME ON! (Score:5, Informative)
Double posting to answer my own question. Those 4 things are:
Put in place a governance model to ensure that privacy is protected when new products are launched;
enhance privacy training to foster compliance amongst all employees;
designate an individual responsible for privacy issues;
and delete the Canadian data
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Re:Article comment puts it best (Score:3, Informative)
Google recorded data that people were actively broadcasting in the clear for anyone in range to receive. /quote>
While true, it is not legal for a corporation to capture and store this data because it is still considered private.
(Incidentally I happen to agree with you, they were shouting the information to anyone who would listen.)
Re:Pay attention class... (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, it's a levy.