Denials Over Google Street View
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 13/06/2012 19:25
Google has long prided itself on not being a conventional company. But there is one characteristic it apparently shares with the most sclerotic bureaucracy: the willingness of its employees to say, "Not my job."
The company on Tuesday released a trove of documents related to a federal investigation of its Street View mapping project. Although the project was intended to photograph the world's streets, from 2007 to 2010 Google gathered unencrypted Internet data from wireless networks, including the content of private communications, as its specially equipped cars passed through neighborhoods.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/technology/google-street-view-case-brought-employee-denials.html
