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FTC Ends Investigation Into Google Street View Privacy Violation

Written by Ironpaper | Oct 27, 2010 6:10:49 PM

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has decided to not pursue a case against Google for their supposed mass violations of privacy from open Wi-Fi networks connected with their Street View service. Google admitted to mistakenly collecting data from open Wi-Fi networks in the US and abroad. Many countries have decided to open up an investigation into this payload data collection.