Google to investigate privacy issues following street mapping project
Posted June 1, 2010 8:01 pm.
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OTTAWA – Canada’s privacy commissioner plans to investigate how Google’s street mapping project did more than show the outside of people’s homes.
Jennifer Stoddart already heard Google’s confession that is accidentally eavesdropped on people’s wireless networks while taking pictures for its “Street View” mapping project last year.
Originally, the search engine said it was simply capturing network locations, but later on admitted that its cars also picked up material from computer on the networks inside the homes.
Stoddart is demanding to know how it happened, what impact this has had on Canadians’ privacy, and whether or not Google broke Canada’s private-sector privacy laws.
Her office has already contacted Google, and asked them to hold onto the data they collected within Canada, as she may examine it within her investigation.
