

  (Source: Inquisitr)
Google is watching you


I. Google Managers Pre-Approved Spying on the Public




Google Street View
[Image Source: Jacopast/Wikipedia]


II. Google Let Off With a Slap on the Wrist



Google wide





Sources: Scribd [FCC/Google], The Guardian

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RE: Stealing
By Trisped on 5/1/2012 2:26:00 PM , Rating: 2
Or, is our law enforcement dead?
Some laws cannot not be enforced (like the hands free cell phone laws).

Some things are not illegal (like recording public information or public broadcasts).

It is a known fact that unsecured networks are open for anyone to snoop on. If you do not secure your network then you are inviting anyone within range to look at what you are doing. This is like you standing on your roof and yelling your credit card numbers. Obviously if you did not want me to use your credit card you would not have told me the number.

It is a little different, as the average person knows not to yell their credit card info, but they have not yet learned to secure their networks. Even so, all sensitive information provided over the internet is SSL encrypted so what sensitive information could Google really have gotten? It is not like Google logged onto the network and started looking for file shares (which would not be illegal since the hoster obviously wanted to share their files otherwise they would have secured their network or secured the shared folders).

Yes, the engineer should have known not to store the data for latter use. The manager should have reviewed the engineer's plans (though I have never seen a manager who listens to an engineer unless the engineer yelling about a new catastrophic problem).

