US probes Google Street View data grabs

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Source: afp

AFP - The attorney general of Connecticut is looking into whether Google broke the law by capturing people's personal data from wireless networks while Street View bicycles and cars mapped streets.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Monday that his office will lead a multistate probe of "Google's deeply disturbing invasion of personal privacy," which has drawn ire and scrutiny in an array of countries.

"Street View cannot mean Complete View -- invading home and business computer networks and vacuuming up personal information and communications," Blumenthal said.
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"While we hope Google will continue to cooperate, its response so far raises as many questions as it answers," Blumenthal said.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100622-us-probes-google-street-view-data-grabs

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some days ago:

France joins privacy probe targeting Google's mapping service
Following the lead of countries worldwide, France’s privacy watchdog, the National Commission for Information and Freedom (CNIL), has criticised Google’s collection of personal information over Wi-Fi networks as it charts city streets for its Street View mapping service. CNIL president Alex Turk noted in a report issued Thursday that the US internet giant had collected “passwords associated with IP addresses and extracts of emails”.

http://www.france24.com/en/20100618-france-joins-privacy-probe-targeting-google-mapping-service-street-view

[Jamastiene]

1. While he is at it, would he mind making them blur

my vehicle's license plate. That irritates me. Anybody using street view should not be able to see that. It's downright creepy.

I have also noticed that neither Google, Bing, or any of the others has my street name right. There are 4 different designations for my street's name and none of them are the right one. It's not a good map anyhow, if it's wrong.