Google is "surprised" that the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) reopened its investigation into the way the company's Street View cars gathered... full story ![]()

Google Inc will pay $7 million to 38 states and the District of Columbia to settle an investigation into a controversial incident in which its Street View mapping cars collected passwords and other personal data from home wireless networks between 2008 and 2010.
nydailynews.com (2 months and 9 days ago)

Google will pay a $7 million fine to settle a multistate US investigation into a software snooping program that the firm admitted was on its Street View mapping cars.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 8 days ago)
Massachusetts will receive part of a multi-state settlement with Google over the company's inappropriate data collection during work for Street View.The post State gets money from Google Street View settlement appeared first on Metro.us.
metro.us (2 months and 9 days ago)
Google must pay a €145,000 (US$190,000) fine in Germany for gathering and storing emails, photos, passwords and chat protocols from unprotected Wi-Fi networks with Google Street View cars, Hamburg's Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said on Monday.Google's Street View cars collected data from Wi-Fi networks such as SSIDs (service set identifiers),...
pcworld.com (27 days ago)
Google is fined again for its past practice of collecting data while creating Street View. Jim Boulden reports.
cnn.com (2 months and 7 days ago)
Google is fined again for its past practice of collecting data while creating Street View. Jim Boulden reports.
cnn.com (2 months and 7 days ago)

Google is continuing to push the limits of its Street View technology, this time by adding images in some of the highest points on the planet.
latimes.com (2 months and 3 days ago)
Spencer Kelly discovers a way to Google Street View into time-lapse photography
palmbeachpost.com (26 days ago)

There are people who probably don't mean to be caught having sex for all the Internet to see, and then their are these two. A couple in Australia seem to have seen the Google Street View cars coming and prepared for their big moment in viral infamy by having apparently fake sex on the side of the road. Here's what Google Street View caught: As astute readers will no doubt...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 7 days ago)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will pay $7 million to 38 states and the District of Columbia to settle an investigation into a controversial incident in which its Street View mapping cars collected passwords and other personal data from home wireless networks between 2008 and 2010.
reuters.com (2 months and 9 days ago)
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