Google faces global music over data sniffing
To be a fly on the wall inside Google's legal department right now: the firm is about to find out whether or not its data sniffing activities - involving recording some of the data sent by domestic Wi-Fi routers - were legal.
Google's tactic of extreme openness over what it says was a mistaken data gathering operation involving its Street View car fleet doesn't seem to have helped much: information protection authorities around the world are apoplectic.
Authorities in at least ten countries and 30 American states are now investigating the company's self-confessed recording activities.
This not only includes gathering the names and hardware codes of the wireless routers active in the areas mapped by its Street View camera cars, but also - and much more controversially - collecting some of the traffic from those devices, such as passwords, emails and web page requests. ....
Short Sharp Science: Google faces global music over data sniffing
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