Google admit on its official blog that they mistakenly collected unprotected Wi/Fi data, password and other personal info using their Street View cars recording streets data for Google Street View service.

In fact, besides photographing the streets and surrounding buildings, the cars were used for collecting the basic information about the networks, and in that case they collect user e-mails, web addresses and passwords of various pages. Google admit that most of the information gathered is incomplete and it will be deleted as soon as possible. But, there is a problem, they will delete personal info’s after a carefully examination…

Google in May admitted that private informations were collected from WiFi network, which caused uproar among the bodies responsible for the privacy protection in many countries. For example, a Canadian regulatory body said that in one case they found a username and password in e-mail, and also 678 phone numbers, 768 e-mail headers, and at least five whole e-mail messages. Although, this Google method violated the laws of Canada, Canadian regulators have decided to close the investigation, with a conclusion that the info’s were gathered as a result of careless errors.

A similar conclusion comes from French and British investigators, announcing that they did not find any meaningful private information. But again, what’s the meaning of this? They analyze every personal data to conclude that informations are not meaningful??

Tags | google, Internet, Networking, privacy