Google admits it ''mistakenly'' collected info.
All the more reason for encryption security.
I can see how open networks can be automatically intercepted by the car, but accidentally stored? BS. If that code was not found by upper level coders and project managers someone needs to be fired (not the guy who coded the offending code). Besides the amount of data collected would have caused concern by someone in charge due to the size of the data needing to be stored.
Got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, huh? 
Got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, huh?
Yup, that's what I said too. Mean yes they are driving around with a powerful set of sniffers but
1) Protect your wifi citizentry
2) how you (google) not gonna dump the data you don't need from the get-go much less how did you manage to program sniffers into your camera trucks...and not know?!
Ginger McCall, a staff counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Made me chuckle.
EPIC fail for Google.
It's bad for UK wi-fi users
Yep, darned intrusive, if ya ask me. Would the sniffers find a wifi network that has SSID broadcast disabled?
Yep, darned intrusive, if ya ask me. Would the sniffers find a wifi network that has SSID broadcast disabled?
They probably find those ones first
Well, its downright Orwellian. I gotta go find my tinfoil hat.