http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100515/...us_google_wifi
Okay so according to this article, Google which has been using these cars to photograph streets and other locations for Google Maps, Google Earth, etc, says that over the last 4 years, Google has "mistakingly" collected over 600 GB of addresses. We're potentially talking about billions of addresses, passwords, and all sorts now in the property of Google, who of course has said that because this was a massive mistake, they have never used any such information.
This is across 30 countries across the world including the USA, much of Europe, Brazil, Hong Kong and so on.
How does everyone feel about this? The fact that Google has (inadvertantly) been eavesdropping on private networks?
I've often said that the internet is a massive entity and practically impossible to police, but im not so sure in light of this. Makes you wonder what really is safe once you put something into writing on the internet somewhere.
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