The cars which drive around in many places photographing the streets of the world for its StreetView service. Google acknowledges that is has been collecting personal data submitted by individuals via the unsecured wireless networks, and the data was collected by mistake by the Google cars. It was during an audit conducted at the request of German authorities about securing data collected by the street view car this flaw was discovered.
“It is now clear that we have collected in error with sample data via Wi-Fi open”. ‘Once we became aware of the problem, we fixed our Street View cars and isolated data on our network, we then disconnected to make them inaccessible’
“The team of Google engineers worked hard to earn your trust. And we are highly aware that we have failed miserably in this case. We are deeply sorry for this mistake and are determined to draw all possible lessons “, said Alan Eustace, vice-presidents Google engineering on thecompany’s official blog .
In total, Google estimates the amount a total data of600 gigabytescollected since 2006. Google also issued a letter, you can view it here.
