Google 'Wi-Spy': Controversy Rages on, Raises More Questions

摘要

Last spring, Google found itself on the receiving end of a fair amount of consternation from the technology press, privacy advocates, and several European countries. German officials accused the search giant of using its ubiquitous Street Mew cars to do more than merely snap those unsettling panoramic shots of your house and neighborhood. Those official Google vehicles, slowly trolling the streets of the Western world's highways and byways with their conspicuous roof-mounted camera stalks, were also collecting "samples of payload data fromWiFi networks," Google admitted in April on its official blog, in response to the accusation.