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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. has been vacuuming up fragments of people's online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks for the past four years, a breach of Web etiquette likely to raise more privacy worries about the Internet search leader.
Even Google was troubled by its behavior, and issued a public apology Friday. The company said it only recently discovered the problem in response to an inquiry from German regulators.
Google grabs personal info off of Wi-Fi networks - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-grabs-personal-info-apf-2162289993.html?x=0 - broken link)
They only copped to it because someone let it slip over drinks or between the sheets......
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