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Google Quizzed on "Street View" Privacy Violations
Posted July 22, 2010 2:52 AM
From the Editors
From the Editors
"Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he asked Google Inc. whether it tested its Street View software before using it, which he said should have revealed the unauthorized collection of personal data from wireless computer networks.
Blumenthal said he sent a letter today to Google senior counsel Stacey Wexler asking for a response by July 23.
The Connecticut official last month demanded information on what Google called the inadvertent gathering of data from wireless networks, including e-mail and passwords, as it took pictures of streets and houses for its Street View service."
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