GOOGLE'S WIFI SNOOPING WORSE THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT

Google announced late today, Friday October 22, that the "inadvertent" Wi-Fi snooping its Street View cars engaged in is worse than we thought.  Apparently they captured entire emails, urls and passwords.   Google did find this on their own however.   External regulators combing through the data that Google illicitly collected discovered the true impact.  According to Google executive Alan Eustace "It's clear from those inspections that while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords. We want to delete this data as soon as possible, and I would like to apologize again for the fact that we collected it in the first place."

In the wake of the illegal data collection Google appointed a new director of privacy for engineering and product management, announced that they're going to enhance "core training" for employees privy to private data, and tightened their compliance standards. [Gizmodo]