Privacy in Peril: Lawyers, Nations Clamor for Google Wi-Fi Data
June 11th, 2010 admin
A hard drive with perhaps several hundred gigabytes of internet surfers’ private data resides under lock and key in a Portland, Oregon federal courthouse. Regulators and private lawyers across Europe and the United States are demanding, and in some cases obtaining, access to data that Google sniffed for the past three years from unsecured Wi-Fi hotspots across the globe. The requests are coming though some of the eight proposed …
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