Google

[Puckstop31]

Also, look for an icon of a padlock in your toolbar; I think that shows up for both Internet Exploder and Firefox; I don't know about other web portals.

Thank you for the "Geek" to English translation. LOL

[Lady's Human]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64D60E20100514


Whoops! Google says mistakenly got wireless data

(Reuters) - Google Inc said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information that consumers send over wireless networks.

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The company said on Friday that it is currently in touch with regulators in several countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Brazil and Hong Kong, about how to dispose of the data, which Google said it never used.

"It's now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks," Google Senior VP of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace said in a post on Google's official blog on Friday.

Google, the world's largest Internet search engine, did not specify what kind of data it collected, but a security expert said that email content and passwords for many users, as well as general Web surfing activity, could easily have been caught in Google's dragnet.

[RICHARD]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64D60E20100514


Whoops! Google says mistakenly got wireless data

(Reuters) - Google Inc said its fleet of cars responsible for photographing streets around the world have for several years accidentally collected personal information that consumers send over wireless networks.

Technology | Lifestyle | Media

The company said on Friday that it is currently in touch with regulators in several countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Brazil and Hong Kong, about how to dispose of the data, which Google said it never used.

"It's now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi networks," Google Senior VP of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace said in a post on Google's official blog on Friday.

Google, the world's largest Internet search engine, did not specify what kind of data it collected, but a security expert said that email content and passwords for many users, as well as general Web surfing activity, could easily have been caught in Google's dragnet.

I laughed when I heard this on the news this morning.

Oops? My eye!

[phesina]

Ohh! How careless of them!

[Marigold2]

I don't know about other parts of the US but here in Ohio there are grocery stores that have member cards that are scanned they will give you a discount on the items on sale as long as you scan your card.
What they are really doing is gathering info on what you drink, wash with, wipe with, read, eat, snack, smoke, use birth control all the thousands of items you buy at the grocery store are scanned and put into a file marked YOU.
I find that pretty upsetting.

[Lady's Human]

The store cards don't bother me. You're doing it voluntarily.

What google did was theft.

[kokopup]

Google has collected and sold info on your searches for years. The popups and unsolicited emails are usually tailored to your interest on searches you have made. We would all be upset if we knew all the info that is collected and stored in Google and others databases.