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Old 05-14-2010, 07:56 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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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)
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Old 05-15-2010, 05:29 PM
 
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Ya right...... THEY DIDNT KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON??

They just didnt think anyone else would figure out what they were doing!!


Idiots.......
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Old 05-15-2010, 05:56 PM
 
Location: Small Town USA Population about 15,000
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They only copped to it because someone let it slip over drinks or between the sheets......
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